ABSTRACT

The modern age is defined by time, by a temporalization of experience, that is, an understanding that events and change are meaningful in their occurrence in and through time. Millennial, evolutionary, and individual life narratives share such temporalizations with an emphasis on the endings. But not all times are the same, as debates at the turn of the century and today, for example, over daylight saving time, indicate. There remain public and private times, slower and faster times, and more and less rationalized times.