Chrononormativity is a mode of implantation, a technique by which institutional forces come to seem like somatic facts. Schedules, calendars, time zones, and even wristwatches inculcate what the socialogist Evitar Zerubavel calls "hidden rhythms," form of temporal experience that seems natural to those whom they privilege. Manipulations of time convert historically specific regimes of asymmetrical power into seemingly ordinary bodily tempos and routines, which in turn organize the value and meaning ot time.

We must expect innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art. At first, no doubt, only the reproduction and transmission of works of art will be affected. It will be possible to send anywhere or to re-create anywhere a system of sensations, or more precisely a system of stimuli, provoked by some object or event in any given place. Works of art will acquire a kind of ubiquity. We shall only have to summon them and there they will be, either in their living actuality or restored from the past They will not merely exist in themselves but will exist wherever someone with a certain apparatus happens to be. A work of art will cease to be anything more than a kind of source or point of origin whose benefit will be available and quite fully so, wherever we wish. Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual- or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign. Just as we are accustomed, if not enslaved, to the various forms of energy that pour into our homes, we shall find it perfectly natural to receive the ultrarapid variations or oscillations that our sense organs gather in and integrate to form all we know. I do not know whether a philosopher has ever dreamed of a company engaged in the home delivery of Sensory Reality.

"Growing older has meant acquiring agency. It allows for so much self-discovery. I can differentiate between various kinds of light and how they feel on my skin. How the wind carries my hair and my limbs and makes my stride easier. The kind of textures I like on my skin and in my food. How much sugar I like in my tea. How I like being touched. How I feel extremely light looking at ripples in water and how sometimes the wind moves in a certain way that it begins to resemble an erratic sound that makes my heart heavy with the anxieties of the future and the present. How I experience time. How I wish to live, day after day. In knowing myself, desire is borne and that desire breeds labor and I do it for myself, and I do it out of love."