In recent social science literatures, a focus on the “social life” of something suggests an interest in foregrounding the active capacities of what has traditionally been thought of as inert. Approaches drawing on Arjun Appadurai’s framework (1988) look to follow the movement of things such as an object, a device, or a method, through its everyday manifestations in order to understand how it takes part in producing social life. This suggests that in challenging accounts of time as an inert background to social life, we might want to focus on the agency of particular manifestations of time, and also attempt to situate them by tracing them through particular contexts and everyday activities.

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简介：时间的社会生活

在最近的社会科学文献中，对某事物的“社会生活”的关注表明了对突出传统上被认为是惰性的事物的主动能力的兴趣。借鉴 Arjun Appadurai 框架 (1988) 的方法旨在通过日常表现来跟踪物体、设备或方法等事物的运动，以了解它如何参与生产社会生活。这表明，在挑战将时间作为社会生活惰性背景的描述时，我们可能希望关注特定时间表现的代理，并试图通过特定背景和日常活动追踪它们来定位它们。