How we live is equivalent to how we spend our time.

Evidence

One might say that where someone like Martin Heidegger engages in a philosophical exploration of the relationship between being and time, Rosa’s work can be seen as a critical social theory of the relationship between social criticism and time. Beginning with the broadly Heidegger-inspired insight that the question how we want to live is equivalent to the question how we want to spend our time, the temporal-structural approach to critical social science reveals that “the manner of our being-in-the-world depends to a great degree on the temporal structures of the society in which we live.” — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 47

Categorization

• APHORISMS: ‘The question how we want to live is equivalent to the question how we want to spend our time’ reads as a genuinely transferable reframing.
• XREF: connects to: How to live well is fundamentally a question of how to spend time.; The temporal structures of a society shape our sense of being in the world — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 65; Life’s meaning depends on the off time productivity eliminates. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 6 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• How to live well is fundamentally a question of how to spend time. #corroborates (0.95)
• Life’s meaning depends on the off time productivity eliminates. #qualifies (0.80) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 6
• The temporal structures of a society shape our sense of being in the world #expands (0.72) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 65
• Individual time is socially structured and largely beyond personal disposal #complicates (0.72)
• Viewing everyday life as investment transforms how people act and cooperate. #expands (0.72) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 61