Time Moves Down the Stack

TalkFlorian LohseSeptember 23, 2026

Florian Lohse synthesizes three books on time's history—David Landes on clock evolution, Tony Jones on atomic timekeeping, and Wolmar and Stein's essay collection on 'hardwired temporality'—to argue that timekeeping has migrated deeper into technical infrastructure, culminating in an emerging 'micro time' regime operating below human perceptual thresholds. Drawing on his 2014 master's thesis on time-management devices, he contends this shift enables machine 'preemption' (decisions made before humans can react, as in VR eye-tracking), and that personal time-management practices are becoming either resistance or mere coping mechanisms as agency over time recedes into infrastructure.

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