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Cyberspace Time and Infertility

Thoughts on Social Time and the Environment

Heather Menzies

This essay uses a personal experience of infertility as a metaphor for a deepening societal alienation, as work and other social activities are increasingly disembodied from grounded, face-to-face contexts into asynchronous bit-actions, the tempo of which is driven by the lightning speed of global digital communication. A history of modern and even postmodern time and its social-conditioning effects, the discourse on technological change (and attendant objective, disembodying language), and new reproductive technologies are discussed, as are possible ways of recovering a sense of time as experience and human memory, and applying this to a renewed social science of implicated participation.

Key Words: asychronization • karoushi • McLuhan • reproductive time • social time • technological time • temporality • virtuality

Time & Society, Vol. 9, No. 1, 75-89 (2000)
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X00009001005
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