A Dance to the Music of Time, by Nicolas Poussin, c. 1635.

A Dance to the Music of Time, by Nicolas Poussin, c. 1635. Wallace Collection, London.

Time

Volume VII, Number 4 | fall 2014

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Preamble

Captain Clock

By Lewis H. Lapham

From overtime to downtime, spending time to saving time, the uses and abuses of our minutes and days.

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Painting of a man in an office looking out of the window.

Strange Days

By Sven Birkerts

During convalescence it grows hard to tell the difference between when to pass the time and when to allow time to pass through.

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An infographic showing a map of deep space and deep time.

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Marking Time

A journey into deep space and deep time.

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Miscellany

In 2013 a picture taken by the Planck telescope of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background—radiation generated by the Big Bang—resulted in the estimation that the universe is 13.82 billion years old.

2012 | United States

Punching In

Mac McClelland is on the clock and on her feet.More

1966 | Australia

Now or Never

Time is running out, and time is close at hand.More

1784 | Paris

Daylight Savings

Benjamin Franklin suggests using sunshine instead of candles.More

Charts & Graphs

Chart showing what can happen in 250 milliseconds.

In the Blink of an Eye

A lot can happen in 250 milliseconds.

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St. Benedict

Black and white photograph of Sven Birkerts sitting in front of a bookshelf.

Hans Holbein portrait of Sir Thomas More.

Photograph of Andrei Tarkovsky

Black and white photograph of Emily Dickinson sitting next to a desk.

English writer Christopher Marlowe.

Lewis Lapham at his desk

Black and white photograph of a young Marshall McLuhan with a think mustache.

Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.

—James Joyce, 1922

Thucydides & Alexis de Tocqueville

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