marimonda – timekeeping

I really enjoyed the readings and videos for this week, I actually ended up watching most of Dr. Donna Caroll’s video and the part that really struck with me of her video was her description of the disruptive nature of Roman time-keeping and how time developed this system of arbitrary months, in part due to cultural pressures. I think this video specifically (though Johanna Drucker and lepw76 go into this as well) made me consider the relationship between ‘accuracy’ and culture . As humans we often have this drive to aspire for accuracy (through patterns we observe, especially in the case of yearly calendars) while imposing a vision of what we believe reality is (in terms of mythos, counting systems, creation), and how this enhances or builds into the narratives we make.