Episode 02: How Capitalism Commodifies Time
Released October 30, 2020
On this episode of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss how millennials love talking about hating capitalism, the influence capitalism has had on our understanding of time, and the blurring line between who you are as a worker and who you are as an individual. Then they discuss how Covid-19 has challenged our conception of time and what this means for the future!
Interested in the works discussed? You can find them here:
Edward Thompson, “Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism”
Karl Marx, Capital
Judy Wajcman, Pressed for Time
Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle
Venkatesh Rao, “Pandemic Time: Distributed Doomsday-Clock”
