Here are some suggestions from back in 2018 for some further (introductory) reading and images about more enlightened (i.e. pre-modern) approaches to time, human being-in-time as imaginative beings, and creative ideas of temporal mechanisation:

• Bink Hallum, “Robots, Musicians and Monsters: The World’s Most Fantastic Clocks,” Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/en/robots-musicians-and-monsters-world’s-most-fantastic-clocks> [2014, accessed 2024-03-09, originally accessed via British Library Manuscripts social media]
• @aseantoo, ”Math and Science Week,” People of Color in European Art History <https://medievalpoc.tumblr.com/post/94247677797/math-and-science-week-aseantoo-submitted-to> [2015, accessed 2024-03-09]
• Urvija Banerji, “The Robot Clocks of 12th-Century Turkey,” Atlas Obscura <https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-robot-clocks-of-12thcentury-turkey> [2016, accessed 2024-03-09]
• ”Time Week – a week of stories devoted to the perplexing particulars of keeping time throughout history,” Atlas Obscura <https://www.atlasobscura.com/categories/time-week> [February 2016, accessed 2024-03-09]
• Nick Sousanis, Unflattening (2015: Harvard UP; first as 2014 diss. Columbia, “Unflattening: A Visual-Verbal Inquiry into Learning in Many Dimensions”’