Replying to LO29617 --
LO,
This 'they' then;-), are these 'they, "to whom the world belongs?" (Brecht
1932)
Chris writes, chants, reiterates
> they
To whom does time belong?
" I sit at the roadside
The driver is changing the tyre.
I didn't like where I have come from
I don't like where I am going to.
Why am I impatient
For the tyre to be changed
(Brecht on is 100th)
...I have seen what you are doing (he, Bataille implicated to me) ...In
general we always seek in actions or in contemplation that shadow which
per definitionem we are unable to grasp hold of; that we can call poetry,
profundity, or intimacy of passion, would we attempt to grasp this
shadow?"
Chronos, Aeon and Kairos
Chronos "devours her children."
Aeon " -the fastest way to God." Alfred Jarry
& Kairos " -the art of doing the right thing at the right moment, auspicious
moment."
The Principles of Scientific Mangement, Frederick Winslow Taylor. Mmmmm.
Lenin wrote in a paper titled, The Taylor-System, the Enslavement of Man
by Machines. "Recently, in America, the advocates of this system have
instituted the following method, a small electric lamp is fastened to a
worker's hand. The movements of the worker are photographed and the
movements of the lamp analysed. It is ascertained that certain movements
are superfluous and the worked is forced to avoid these movements, that
is, to work more intensively and not waste even one second on
resting...Systematically the cinematograph is being applied."...Russia
like this very much and developed their own systems for the improvement of
the human resource ;-)..." so called chrono cards," were developed whereby
people's daily actions could be recorded and systematised for the
maximisation of time/action compression..." a fusion of worker (human)
with machines is achieved"...a section of the intelligentsia (sic) then
believed that, " the human organism as a fundamentally mechanical one may
now be powerfully enriched by the would of electricity in a perfect
symbiosis of labour (people) and apparatus was sought."
This may conjure up ghosts for older readers here, the above is material
from circa 1920's, as is this ;-) " At the Petrograd Institute of
particular importance were experiments with music structures, theories of
the interval, of rhythm and on the physio-psychological importance of
music. For example, PK Anochin, 1921 The Influence of Major and Minor
Chords on Activation and Inhibition of the Cerebral Cortex. Work like this
examined for example, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, and the overture to
Gounod's opera Faust on 'intellectual' work"
Let me end with a great humanist writer,
" A nation is only truly wealthy, if no interest is paid on capital; if
the working day is six hours long instead of twelve. Wealth means to have
time at one's disposal; nothing more, nothing less."
I sit at the roadside...
Foregive me, I lapsed into repetition. (December 3rd 1974, Cowley Car
Plant)
Love,
Andrew
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