../diaries of
an unemployable
marxist sociologist

This is the first installment of what I'm planning to be a 3-part series looking at the relationship between capitalism and time. In this first one, I wanted to perform a basic vibe check, if you will, on how the widespread adoption of clock time during the industrial revolution is related to labour struggles, power structures, and the way we perceive and think about time itself. I used images from Fritz Lang's Metropolis, since this is a classical modern film that created a lot of beautiful haunting visuals that really encapsulate this feeling of regimented, controlled time.