Too Late for Private Life
Communism hasn't disappeared, it's been privatized.
1\hrius Oprea
Mode de vie (lifestyle) and cardiac rhythms (heartbeats), mode de vitesse (speed mode) and technical rhythmics (technical cycles) - that, in a nutshell, is the question posed by the TEM PO of our use of time and space in a vitality that was once run-of-the-mill but is now sufering from everyday life's electro technical ARHYTHMIA which never stops rocking people's consciences.
lhe old calendar-based systems of agrarian societies, their seasonal rhythms, have long yielded to the systems and rhythms of industrialization and the mass population shifts from the country to the towns. lhis process has, by the same token, abolished the remainder of the Wes t's Christian rituals, wi th public holidays dwindling as the programmed end of lifetime employment - the practice of open-ended work contracts - spreads, along with structural unemployment. I t has reached the point of pure and simple elimination of the weekly c:ycle now that Sunday has been subverted as a day of rest and the much-touted seven-days-a-week (7/7) made imperative.
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