The film In Time makes time serve as money to dramatize precarity

Evidence

Time rather than money is the currency in the recent science fiction film In Time. At the age of twenty-five, the citizens in the future world the film depicts are given only a year more to live. To survive any longer, they must earn extra time. The decadent rich have centuries of empty time available to fritter away, while the poor are always only days or hours away from death. In Time is, in effect, the first science fiction film about precarity — a condition that describes an existential predicament as much as it refers to a particular way of organising work. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1623

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces precarity as framing concept for the whole essay.
• XREF: connects to: Brandscape films materially embody financial speculation, not just symbolize it — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media: How Wall Street…, 402; Space and time are afterimages of the mode of production. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 783

Broader Connections

• Space and time are afterimages of the mode of production. #exemplifies (0.80) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 783
• Brandscape films materially embody financial speculation, not just symbolize it #expands (0.78) — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 402