Commodified time reduces time to exchangeable units divorced from human meaning

Evidence

The time of production—commodified time—is an infinite accumulation of equivalent intervals. It is irreversible time made abstract, in which each segment need only demonstrate by the clock its purely quantitative equality with all the others. It has no reality apart from its exchangeability. Under the social reign of commodified time, “time is everything, man is nothing; he is at most the carcass of time” (The Poverty of Philosophy). This devalued time is the complete opposite of time as “terrain of human development.” — Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, 169

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Frankfurt school reading on time as subordinated to exchange value and abstract labor time. — connects to: Commodity form has totally colonized social perception — Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle, 55; Treating humans as permanent substances dissolves real temporality into mere measure — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 487; Attention commodification reduces human beings and relationships to quantifiable, saleable things. (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Socially necessary labor time makes disparate commodities commensurable #expands (0.85) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1443
• Treating humans as permanent substances dissolves real temporality into mere measure #corroborates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 487
• Time-based prison sentences mirror the commodification of labor time #corroborates (0.80) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 111
• Attention commodification reduces human beings and relationships to quantifiable, saleable things. #corroborates (0.72)
• Timetables impose abstract time onto bodily activity as an external frame #exemplifies (0.72) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 259