Where and When?

Wednesday 27th October at 3pm on Zoom – Link

Discussion

Open to interpretation, and deliberately elusive, we want this week’s theme to prompt discussions on American ‘time’ and temporalities across its past, present, and future. What exactly is the ‘New York Minute’; how did the railroads standardize notions of time in the U.S’; and how might the nation’s many various demographics perceive time in different ways?

All ideas and discussions are welcome – as ever we encourage freewheeling discussion and tangents that promote discussion of North America in our usual, pop-culture-heavy way. Everyone welcome!

Reading

Paul Lawrie’s excellent TEDx talk ‘Race, Space and Time in the Making of Urban America – Click for link

This short extract (courtesy of Rob) on ‘Time’ in Los Angeles, from Alison Laurie’s The Nowhere City