Clocks and the Anthropocene

Last week, the Doomsday Clock moved to three minutes from midnight. Yet, while it is intended to measure the closeness to total destruction, "what the clock really measures is worry—that is, how worried members of the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board are about the state of the world."

Measurement of cataclysm is intimately related to the sense of it, in other words, how unmeasureable it is. While previous geological time periods have been measured, let thousands of years after they existed, the anthropocene is defined by its presentness, and by extension its unmeasurability.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/it-s-doomsday-clock-time-again/ http://thebulletin.org/overview

"This mechanization of the body—a precursor and template for the ongoing reconceptualization of the self in terms of quantities alone—reflects how our bodies have become products, rather than agents, of a culture of busyness and rationality that glorifies productivity. Scientific discourses have succeeded in masking the way we’ve been clocked in and can no longer clock out."

http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/the-clock-inside-us/