This article, drawn from an ethnography of a rural farming co-operative in the East of England, argues that the temporal experience of the digital is one of a-temporality rather than acceleration. In using the term a-temporality, the article is elaborating on a concept briefly discussed by Mark Fisher to denote an alienation from time, combining it with Natasha Dow Schull’s writings on casino capitalism. Dow Schull suggests that Las Vegas capitalism has moved from streamlining time to deforming it, rendering it tensile and pliant. A similar temporal distortion is apparent in the community’s experience with digital devices. The article explores the relationships of coping the community members form with their devices, arguing that they utilize them to self-medicate emotional distress and in doing so open new ways of existing in time. In this way, the article makes sense of the fact that the group – environmentalists largely sceptical of other forms of technology – has adopted the digital so readily.

本文摘自英格兰东部某农村合作社的人种志，该文章认为，数字时代的经验是非暂时性的，而不是加速的。在使用术语“ a-temporalality”时，本文详细阐述了Mark Fisher简要讨论的一种表示时间异化的概念，并将其与Natasha Dow Schull关于赌场资本主义的著作相结合。道尔•舒尔（Dow Schull）表示，拉斯维加斯的资本主义已经从精简时间转变为使时间变形，从而使其变得紧张而柔韧。在社区使用数字设备的经验中，类似的时间失真也很明显。本文探讨了应对社区成员与他们的设备的关系，认为他们利用社区成员来自我治疗情绪困扰，并以此及时地开辟了新的生存方式。这样，