Week 12: Defending a wait

The closing lecture, on what it means to design a wait you are not allowed to shorten, and who you answer to when you do.

18 May 2027

The course ends where it started, with a wait nobody can make shorter. What has changed is the number of things you can now do to it, and your obligation to say which person each of them acts on.

Sharma is the closing frame. She argues that both speeding up and slowing down are ways of arranging other people in time, and that the interesting question is never the pace but whose pace is being maintained by whom. Take that into the studio and point it at your own intervention.