Timetables impose abstract time onto bodily activity as an external frame

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

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘exterior surface’ language ties to Mitchell’s broader argument about representation and the frame; also resonates with the timetable discussion in Foucault and in E.P. Thompson’s time-discipline essay. — connects to: Modern leisure organizes activity so rigidly that its schema outweighs its content; Production-process forms increasingly colonize private leisure time; Daily routines treat time as objective despite its contested meaning — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1260 (+5 more)