{"resolved":true,"match_type":"uuid","source_type":"original_book","book_id":"d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2","title":"Time The Modern and Postmodern Experience","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":null,"requested_by":"printed_page","book":{"source_type":"original_book","book_id":"d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2","id":"d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2","uuid":"d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2","title":"Time The Modern and Postmodern Experience","normalized_title":"timethemodernandpostmodernexperience","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":null,"isbns":[],"parsed":true,"ai_readable":true,"document_type":"book","page_count":178,"navigation_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2","title_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/title/Time%20The%20Modern%20and%20Postmodern%20Experience","fixed_page_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2/page/{printed_page}","path_api_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/book/d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2/page/{printed_page}","read_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/read/d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2","page_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2/page","search_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/d3ee5fbb-1124-4191-99e1-3139801e0da2/search"},"page":{"printed_page":103,"pdf_page":103,"physical_index":103,"physical_index_base":0,"printed_page_status":"recognized","page_sha256":"9f958129a6b20a2d122a851ac9f5b24857fe80940ddec82bb3104157bf2b6e68"},"chapter":"An Embarrassment of Proper Times:","content":"In the extended present, the festivals, the truly extraordinary times, have also shrunk and are solely to be found as archaic residues. Even the carnival, that game of inversions and of liberation from old certainties, that escape from reality into an orgiastic recreation of the cosmos,2 now has to seek its moments in an extended present which can no longer afford to make longer periods completely free for games and tomfoolery, for a reversal of values and for disguises of all kinds. Everyday life still affords time for the so-called vicissitudes of life, but even here it is laid down how much time is to be expended on these: so many days off work in the case of a death; so many days off work for getting married; and so many for precisely defined vicissitudes of other kinds.³\n\nEveryday life has become the bracket combining work and so-called free time; the private spending'of time and public spending form a new combination in everyday life. The great public institutions of the state and the economy, and their temporal perspectives, are confronted with the temporal perspectives of the citizens and employees, the economic subjects. In everyday life and all those private matters which become capable of being experienced, and thereby become a political issue, only through the conflict over the time they take up, the great changes are revealed concerning the quality of time itself, the valency attributed to it, and the exchange relations between quantity and quality. The ‘issues’ at stake here have to do with increased demands on the quality of everyday life, with the massive entry of women into working life and with the different time culture which they bring with them. But it is also a question of services which cannot be automated and realized in the same way as the production of goods;4 they thus demand other temporal patterns which have to do with informality, with the quality of human relationships and with caring, and are based on other exchange relations between time and money. The conflict over the reduction in working hours, which Oskar Negt believes to be a 'political'struggle and not a mere wage conflict of a conventional kind,⁵ still pre-eminently feeds off the traditional notion of a uniform, continuous, predominantly male working life, whereas the social reality of the labour market has long since become unsteadied' and, in the opinion of many authors, 'feminized'.6 What is collectively due for distribution, that for which a new politics of distribution has to be found, is work and time: work, because the previous ‘standard biography', given an increasing tendency to participate in work and a stagnant social volume of available work, will be accessible only to a small fragmentary group of the gainfully employed in future; and time, because it is not least a question of a redistribution of paid and unpaid work between women and men.\n\nPolitics of Time\n\n103","previous_page":null,"next_page":104}