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time access to, unequal 133, 135 action in 14 alienation of 147 allocation of 114 biological rhythms of 6 and change 50-1 cyclical v. linear 54, 55, 57, 59–60, 73–4, 137–8 death of 100, 137 differing concepts of 53, 57, 100–1, 102, 132, 139 experienced as conflict 105,112-13, 134 experienced as power 143 as fourth dimension’1 free, and work 103–4, 108, 117–18, 120-1, 125-8, 136-7 iconography of 84–6, 88–9; see also Cronos individual v. global 18–19, 22, 27–8 linear 15, 54, 83 linear, superseded 64-5, 73, 137–8 management of 14, 134-5 measurement of 17, 18, 55,56 and medical profession 123-4 medieval 16, 25, 36 metaphors for 6-7 in non-Western cultures 9, 102, 132, 139, 151 personal experience of 6, 7–9, 13, 105, 144 political implications of 13, 107–8, 113, 127–8 private v. public 31, 38, 104–5, 113, 125–6 quality v. quantity 133 scientific understanding of 1, 84; see also geology; science shortage of / hunger for 96–7, 133, 134 social scientific study of 7,8 and social structures 6, 14,58 standardization of 18, 22, 24-5, 37 strategic concepts of 14, 143, 145 waiting, utilization of 141 see also arrow(s) of time; 'core times'; 'proper time'; queuing time; social time
time cultures conflicting 13, 113 non-Western v. Western 132, 139, 151 of women 104, 107, 127
Titanic 22
transport 18, 26, 110
truth: personification of, in art 86
Turkle, S. 39
uchronias 132, 136, 137, 139-41, 142
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