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Machine Time.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Price, Seth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and literature.
- Artists' writings.
- Technology and the arts.
- Art and technology.
- Artists' Writing.
- Arts and Literature.
- Genre:
- Artists' books
- Fiction
- Artists' books.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Heavy Traffic, 2022.
- Summary:
- ""For millennia one had measured oneself against the cycles of the seasons and the heavens, or against changing social mores and geopolitical configurations. To now be compelled to measure one's life against the pace of machine time invited madness." In this long-form essay by Seth Price, a "cultured middle aged artist from New York" attends a winter solstice party at an "open-air, tropical-Modern" island villa hosted by a man named Trader, "tanned, with a graying mane, khakis, trainers, and a billowing linen Oxford." The real drama of this story, however, is arguably the "practice of divesting and reinvesting meaning" in our world of signs, a world whose semiotic layer is undergoing an epochal shift .. or so it seems."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Standard Copyright.
- Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 01/24/2026).
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