K. BirthThinkers

The Clock is accompanied by the cultivation of cognitive dependency on it and the logics it hides.

The Clock is, as a time-reckoning tool, not merely a creation of the mind, but a creation for the shaping of thought.

The Clock is, in the colonial context, used to manage the rhythms of the colonized.

The Clock is not simply a technical device that reveals time but a tool that calculates and represents it.

The Clock is responsible for cognitive processes having moved away from phenomena directly available to human perception (i.e. Charting the sun and stars) toward abstract ideas of time measured and mediated by complex machines that produce intelligible results (i.e. Measuring the vibration of cesium atoms).

The Clock is a device on whose reliance certain cognitive skills atrophy even as it allows increased precision.

The Clock is a device that shapes cognition in particular ways and diminishes other cognitive skills (such as the reading out of time from the environment).