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AFTER CERTAINTY

Organization

Ian R. Bartky

Historian of standard time's adoption and the coordination of clocks across distance.

Why this matters

Bartky shows modernity installing shared certainty as infrastructure.

Focus in observatory

Works

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The Adoption of Standard Time

Bartky, Ian R. "The Adoption of Standard Time." *Technology and Culture* 30, no. 1 (1989): 25-56.

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Before Certainty Arrives

How Moral Order Forms, Hardens, and Outlives Its Reasons

How moral order forms, hardens, and outlives its reasons—before certainty feels like the only available posture.