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The word “synchronize” is composed by the Greek prefix syn-, meaning “together”, and the word for “time”, chronos, and thus refers to actions or activities that cause something to happen together, coincide, to occur or unfold at the same time, to be in sync. Taken together, these synchronized activities and actions bring about, consolidate, and perpetuate forms of synchronized collective time, which belong to the basic infrastructure of human societies. In this way collective, homogenous, and singular time, for example progress, is produced by synchronizing practices, work of synchonization, making use of a whole set of tools and technologies, from calendars, and clocks, to concepts and narratives. See als Out of Sync. [HJ]
Further
►Jordheim,Helge. "Synchronizing the World. Synchronism as Historiographical Practice, Then and Now," History of the Present 7/1 2017, 59-95; and "Multiple Times and the Work of Synchronization," History and Theory 53 (2014), 498-518, as well as other articles in this Special Issue by Geoffrey Bowker, Lucian Hölscher, Shazad Bashir and others.