"... But what the monks did not foresee was that the clock is a means not merely of keeping track of the hours but also of synchronizing and controlling the actions of men. And thus, by the middle of the fourteenth century, the clock had moved outside the walls of the monastery, and brought a new and precise regularity to the life of the workman and the merchant. “The mechanical clock,” as Lewis Mumford wrote, “made possible the idea of regular production, regular working hours and a standardized product.” In short, without the clock, capitalism would have been quite impossible. The paradox, the surprise, and the wonder are that the clock was invented by men who wanted to devote themselves more rigorously to God; it ended as the technology of greatest use to men who wished to devote themselves to the accumulation of money. In the eternal struggle between God and Mammon, the clock quite unpredictably favored the latter."
- "Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Techology" by Neil Postman. Page 14 - 15.
强行解释一下为什么电影里总是出现各种表, 以及结尾为什么要 (剧透) 它们.
下面还有两个比较牵强的手表:
以及几张剧透:
- 附:
英国艺术家的一个类似的艺术项目: "Break Down" by Michael Landy | Artangel
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