Become Infrastructure

Become Part Of The Background

Create Continuity

Create Predictability

Exist Because Humans Forget

Exist To Be Emptied

Exist To Be Filled

Extend Memory

Make Coordination Possible

Mark Time

Measure

Organize Cooperation

Organize Hope

Organize Time

Overbook

Ping You

Quietly Reassure

Reward Reliability

Synchronize

calendar

Father's Day

dad joke

prison

shoplifting

ethiopia

trivia

April Fools Day

Chuck Norris

There's a word for that

month

Ancient Egyptian

North Korea

deadline

one-liner

not giving a fuck

scheduling

Die Hard

Christmas movie

is as impeccable as it is unreal, substituting as it does a linear, homogeneous, continuous time for a practical time (made up of immesurable islands of duration, each with its own rhythm).

In his discussion of calendars, he is concerned with how a calendar is an objective representation that 'substitutes a linear, homogeneous, continuous time for a practical time, which is made up of immesurable islands of duration, each with its own rhythm' (1977 [1972], 105). He sums up his fear as the danger of analyses that focus on 'artefacts as impeccable as they are unreal' rather than 'the uncertainties and ambiguities' that practical logic addresses (1977 [1972], 108... emphasis in original).

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is an attempt, underwritten by the principal religions, to make the heavenly bodies keep regular hours.

is a method of reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

is not a thing that actually tells you what day it is. It just gives you a list of options to choose from.

is a device that ensures that your days are numbered.

calendar, n.Definitions

calendar