Individual time is socially structured and largely beyond personal disposal

Evidence

Between the reveille that opens it and the lights extinguished to mark its end, ‘time’ is written out upon the exterior surface of the day. The device of the timetable separates out the dimension of time to form a framework, in which the activities of studying, eating, and exercising are to be contained. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 259 (#expands, via linked claim)

The control of time allows for the coordination of activity and, therefore, effective social control. In navigation, time was early fixed on English ships according to the clock of the Greenwich observatory; and no matter where a ship might be in the Atlantic, its chronometer always registered Greenwich time. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 848 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: How to live well is fundamentally a question of how to spend time.; Timetables impose abstract time onto bodily activity as an external frame — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 259; Control of time enables coordination of activity and social control — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 848 (+5 more)

Related

• Timetables impose abstract time onto bodily activity as an external frame (similarity 0.86)
• Daily routines treat time as objective despite its contested meaning (similarity 0.84)
• Control of time enables coordination of activity and social control (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Timetables impose abstract time onto bodily activity as an external frame #expands (0.80) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 259
• Control of time enables coordination of activity and social control #expands (0.75) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 848