In and through this dramaturgy of gestures, perceptions, thoughts and affects, it becomes possible for the carpenter to create a spiral which, in the midst of the compulsion of working hours, initiates a different way of inhabiting time, a different way of keeping a body and mind in motion.
The rationality of the horizontal unfolding of time is based on a vertical hierarchy that separates two forms of life, two ways of being in time โ as we might simply put it, the way of those who have time and the way of those who do not.
The justice of time …
Aristotleโs Poetics: the justice that causes active men to pass from good fortune to misfortune and from ignorance to knowledge.
Platoโs Republic. It consists in an orderly distribution of times and spaces, activities and capacities, and is based on a precondition stated by Plato at the very outset of the narrative about the foundation of the city. This precondition is that artisans, who must not have time to go elsewhere, time to do anything other than the work which cannot wait, should be kept exclusively in the space of the workshop.