"The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets ..." - David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change

The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

— David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change

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Time — Reflections on the passage of time and how we spend it

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