Planktons in the Sea: A Few Questions Regarding the Qualities of Time

Martin Heidegger, On Being and Time, trans. Joan Stambaugh (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), 3.

Saint Augustine, Confessions, trans. Henry Chadwick (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 230.

Burkhard Bilger, “The Possibilian: What a Brush with Death Taught David Eagleman about the Mysteries of Time and the Brain,” New Yorker, April 25, 2011, 57.

Ibid., 57–58.

For a history of the idea of alternatives to currency, see Thomas H. Greco, Jr., The End of Money and the Future of Civilization (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2009).

For more on alchemy, gold, money, and immortality, see Hans Christoph Binswanger, Money and Magic: A Critique of the Modern Economy in the Light of Goethe’s Faust (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).

For an interesting history of the fortunes of the US dollar as a unit of international exchange see Barry Eichengreen, Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).

For a useful overview of the abandonment of the gold standard during Richard Nixon’s presidency see Allan J. Masutow, Nixon’s Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars and Votes (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998), 149–82.

From →. See also S.S. Heubner, The Economics of Life Insurance: Human Life Values—Their Financial Organization, Management and Liquidation (Leap Systems Inc./Appleton, Century, Crofts, 1996).

“Time is Money, Professor Proves,” CNN, May 29, 2002, →. See also, Nick Drainey, “A Formula for Efficient Living,” The Scotsman, May 29, 2002, →.

Howard Nemerov, “Waiting Rooms,” in The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977), 459–60.

Gautam Pemmaraju, “Misbehaving Clocks: A Primary Pathology of Timecode Troubles.” See →.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Master Dōgen’s Shōbōgenzō: Book 1, trans. Gudo Nishijima and Chodo Cross (BookSurge Publishing, 2006), 91–93.

From a note that accompanied our contribution to Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda’s inauguration of Time/Bank.

For a wealth of ideas on gifts, debt, and reciprocity, see Bronisław Malinowski, The Argonauts of the Western Pacific (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 1984); Marcel Mauss, The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies, trans. W. D. Halls (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000); Georges Bataille, The Accursed Share: Consumption (Volume 1) (Brooklyn: Zone Books, 1991); Margaret Atwood, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2008).

Jacques Derrida, Given Time: 1. Counterfeit Money (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 41.

The reference here is to Marx’s discussion of dead labor and living labor in Marx, Capital, Volume 1 (New York: Penguin Classics, 1992), 283–93.

Aristotle, The Physics (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 110.

Ecclesiastes 3:5–8.