How Silicon Valley sets time
How Silicon Valley sets time
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硅谷如何设定时间
作者：
J. Wajcman
数字日历是后勤媒体，是配置人和事物之间安排的基础设施的一部分。日历在建立我们的日常节奏，塑造我们的时间意识方面发挥着越来越重要的作用。本文通过对硅谷日历设计师的采访，探讨了日程安排应用程序的概念化和生产如何编纂了关于有效时间管理的当代理想。我认为，这些理想反映了加速时间处理，以优化生产力和最大限度地减少时间浪费的驱动文化的必要性。这种机械的方法将时间视为一种定量的、个人主义的资源，模糊了嵌入在网格界面上可以和不可以图形化表示的内容中的时间政治。我的结论是，电子日历象征着一个长期存在但错误的信念，在硅谷占主导地位，即自动化将为我们提供更多的时间。
Digital calendars are logistical media, part of the infrastructure that configures arrangements among people and things. Calendars increasingly play a fundamental role in establishing our everyday rhythms, shaping our consciousness of temporality. Drawing on interviews with Silicon Valley calendar designers, this article explores how the conceptualization and production of scheduling applications codify contemporary ideals about efficient time management. I argue that these ideals reflect the driving cultural imperative for accelerated time handling in order to optimize productivity and minimize time wasting. Such mechanistic approaches treat time as a quantitative, individualistic resource, obscuring the politics of time embedded in what can and cannot be graphically represented on the grid interface. I conclude that electronic calendars are emblematic of a long-standing but mistaken belief, hegemonic in Silicon Valley, that automation will deliver us more time.