Ageing is basically a natural or physical phenomenon. For a human being, it belongs to the body. When this fact is noticed, a drama of oldness and life/death begins: ageing is a problem of experience. There are losses and gains in this experience. Indeed, a particular respect was paid to a rhapsodist/bard and a hermit because of their memory power and deep wisdom respectively. Since we recognize in these cases accumulation and maturation, the core subject in the experience of ageing is memory and the time structure. Vis-à-vis the hard memories such as stone monuments and IC memory, the live memory is characterised by a creativity, which vivifies our past time. I pay a particular attention to friendship, because one of the most painful experiences of ageing consists in the loss of dear friends. Recollecting creatively the time shared with them, we can vivify our past, i.e. our being: that is the appropriation of ourselves.
This paper deals with the relationship between television and everyday life in modern society. The author pays attention to four aspects of organization of television time: emphasis on the present moment, articulation of clock time, temporal regularity and orientation towards temporal structures of everydayness. The paper tries to show to what degree temporal structures of television broadcasting correlate with time experience of modern society members and how they are interwoven with temporal structures of everyday life of audience.
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