A Dance to the Music of Time, by Nicolas Poussin, c. 1635.

A Dance to the Music of Time, by Nicolas Poussin, c. 1635. Wallace Collection, London.

Time

Volume VII, Number 4 | fall 2014

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Preamble

Captain Clock

By Lewis H. Lapham

From overtime to downtime, spending time to saving time, the uses and abuses of our minutes and days.

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Painting of a man in an office looking out of the window.

Strange Days

By Sven Birkerts

During convalescence it grows hard to tell the difference between when to pass the time and when to allow time to pass through.

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An infographic showing a map of deep space and deep time.

Map

Marking Time

A journey into deep space and deep time.

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Miscellany

“Man is the only being that knows death; all others become old, but with a consciousness wholly limited to the moment which must seem to them eternal. We are time,” writes Oswald Spengler in The Decline of the West.

1966 | Australia

Now or Never

Time is running out, and time is close at hand.More

1863 | Amherst, MA

On the Contrary

For Emily Dickinson, time does not heal everything.More

1899 | Chicago

Time Well Spent

Thorstein Veblen invents the leisure class.More

Charts & Graphs

Chart showing the cost of items per minute.

Dollars per Minute

What it all costs, minute by minute.

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Black and white photograph of John Crowley sitting on a porch.

Painting of William Wordsworth.

Painting of Ivan Goncharov sitting in a chair.

Portrait of young Arthur Schopenhauer wearing a brown suit and a cravat.

Black and white photograph of C. P. Cavafy wearing thick-rimmed black glasses.

Photograph of Charles Baudelaire

Henry David Thoreau

Black and white photograph of Sven Birkerts sitting in front of a bookshelf.

I’ve been on a calendar, but never on time.

—Marilyn Monroe, 1962

Classical bust of Thucydides.

Portrait of Alexis de Tocqueville wearing a black suit and standing in front of a chair.

Thucydides & Alexis de Tocqueville

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