Time capital as a social imaginary
This paper discusses time as a form of regulating social life that integrates culturally and historically variable social imaginaries manifested within various economic, political and cultural spheres. While the ‘cyclical time’ of the archaic societies is based on a social imaginary of nature, the ‘...
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| description | This paper discusses time as a form of regulating social life that integrates culturally and historically variable social imaginaries manifested within various economic, political and cultural spheres. While the ‘cyclical time’ of the archaic societies is based on a social imaginary of nature, the ‘linear time’ that marked the transition from the medieval to the modern culture follows a social imaginary of Newtonian mechanics. Time as a “commodity” that characterizes the Taylorist mode of production stands on a social imaginary of efficiency, predictability and controllability. These three notions have taken on new meanings under the imperatives of a digital economy, hence the algorithmic ideology that characterizes surveillance capitalism operates on a social imaginary of ‘time capital’. The new markets and business models of the digitally-mediated economy rely on a recursive and iterative logic through which ‘time capital’ is both converted to and from other forms of capital (social, cultural, financial) and operated on technically-induced processes of acceleration and deceleration. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d8fdab37db234a9f996925e02eb5bee02022-12-22T03:26:31ZengUniversity of BucharestJournal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology2068-03172020-06-011115158Time capital as a social imaginaryȘtefania Matei0Marian Preda1Faculty of Sociology and Social Work & Interdisciplinary School of Doctoral Studies, University of Bucharest, RomaniaFaculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, RomaniaThis paper discusses time as a form of regulating social life that integrates culturally and historically variable social imaginaries manifested within various economic, political and cultural spheres. While the ‘cyclical time’ of the archaic societies is based on a social imaginary of nature, the ‘linear time’ that marked the transition from the medieval to the modern culture follows a social imaginary of Newtonian mechanics. Time as a “commodity” that characterizes the Taylorist mode of production stands on a social imaginary of efficiency, predictability and controllability. These three notions have taken on new meanings under the imperatives of a digital economy, hence the algorithmic ideology that characterizes surveillance capitalism operates on a social imaginary of ‘time capital’. The new markets and business models of the digitally-mediated economy rely on a recursive and iterative logic through which ‘time capital’ is both converted to and from other forms of capital (social, cultural, financial) and operated on technically-induced processes of acceleration and deceleration.http://compaso.eu/wpd/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Compaso2020_111_MateiPreda.pdfsocial imaginariestime capitalcommodificationdigital marketsalgorithmic timesurveillance capitalismentrepreneurship |
| spellingShingle | Ștefania Matei Marian Preda Time capital as a social imaginary Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology social imaginaries time capital commodification digital markets algorithmic time surveillance capitalism entrepreneurship |
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| topic | social imaginaries time capital commodification digital markets algorithmic time surveillance capitalism entrepreneurship |
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