relations release other kinds of power. Less and less, in the 
electric age, can we find any good reason for imposing the 
same set of relations on every kind of object or group of 
objects. Yet in the ancient world the only means of achieving 
power was getting a thousand slaves to act as one man. 
During the Middle Ages the communal clock extended by the 
bell permitted high coordination of the energies of small 
communities. In the Renaissance the clock combined with the 
uniform respectability of the new typography to extend the 
power of social organization almost to a national scale. By the 
nineteenth century it had provided a technology of cohesion 
that was inseparable from industry and transport, enabling an 
entire metropolis to act almost as an automaton. Now in the 
electric age of decentralized power and information we begin to 
chafe under the uniformity of clock-time. In this age of space-
time we seek multiplicity, rather than repeatability, of rhythms.