ABSTRACT
Repetition is integral to learning, to life activity, indeed to life itself. ‘Taylorism’ is a form of disaggregation introduced in the early 20th century, it proposed a methodology for breaking down each task or action into timed micromovements in order to optimise job performance and thereby maximise efficiency. The nature of the opposition to Taylorism suggests that something more than merely the task is disaggregated when an activity is broken down in this way. Technology today is able to swiftly deliver sensory experiences of varying intensities to large numbers of people. Multi-tasking has become a near universal feature of life. A deep and seemingly unsatisfiable hunger for sensory experience is evident today: in the valorisation of sex, the privileging of the dramas of human emotion, the fascination with violence toward self as well as other, and the popularity of things deemed extreme, whether in the arena of sports, adventure, entertainment or life.
