TIMENERGY

The concept of timenergy opens up a new theoretical space for the critique of capitalism and provides a field of rich possibilities for a spirited coalition between Marxism, existentialism, structuralism and psychoanalysis. The heartbeat of the future itself has stopped — the concept of timenergy is CPR.

With the concept of timenergy, David McKerracher articulates just what makes any job-centric society so existentially destructive. He grasps perfectly even how those who succeed at the game of productivity lose as much as those who fail. Timenergy is truly what we all lack. Written in relatable prose, TIMENERGY is a revelation throughout.

The concept of "timenergy" is a key component of an existentialist Marxism. Timenergy is critical to the flourishing of humanity. In my personal life and my political organizing it has created a horizon for me to focus my actions. To truly flourish as an individual we must recognize the social grounding of our personal time and energy.

We are all deprived of timenergy: Our society revolves around the commodification, or exchange, of "labor power," which is what timenergy becomes in capitalism. Timenergy is existentially prior to the economic divorce and separation of time from energy. Timenergy is not just time or energy, but comes before the compartmentalization of either. Timenergy is energy plus time with the potential to repeatedly sacrifice towards building sustained symbolic and material value for oneself and potential communities of recognition and care.