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The second element in the world-historical repertory of legal thought is the idea of law as the will of the sovereign. The sovereign is the state, or whoever holds governmental power. Thus, law as the will of the sovereign is also the law willed by the state and imposed by the state on society.
The Universal History of Legal Thought
Roberto Mangabeira Unger
the history that happens underneath our noses ought to be the clearest, and yet it’s the most deliquescent. We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn’t it? But if we can’t understand time, can’t grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history—even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it?
The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes
The fetish for collaboration in large and small organizations renders working days subject to individual calendars and dispositions. Schedules become battle zones of alignment between distributed peers in teams, adding a layer of coordination to what had previously been taken-for-granted office presence. This decentralized professional milieu is less a matter of increasing busyness among workers as it is the logistical nightmare of achieving synchronicity. In the words of Judy Wajcman, __this is a problem not of time but of timing__.
Counterproductive: Time Management in the Knowledge Economy
Melissa Gregg
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