The linearity of time is effected by an apparently relative stasis of the cycles of everyday. Everything is turning, but together, at a predictably constant rate, to effect a globally emergent pulse. A constant pulse forms a linearity of observation through a linearity of observed change.

If the conservative ideal rate of change tends to zero, what of the progressive? 

Perhaps cycles are the medium of revolution.

Cycles place us in the everyday.  They are repetitions of time that we use to measure and quantize our lives.  They are the domain of the habitus.

this relates specifically to the idea of a culture of repetition. (see Fink and Attali)

As mediatised culture creates a system for circulating representations of experience, and indeed, our internal representations of experience become symbolically mediatised, so too our experience of time is in effect submitted to a constant demand for synchronisation. The desynchronised nature of the net allows some freedom from this, in that for instance, news is no longer restricted to a specific time of day. Schafer and Truax speak of this also, especially Truax, in their discussion of radio programming. Similarly, the length of music over time has been reduced to fit more easily machine processable in a progression from symphony to pop song (straying from known ground here as its quite possible that pop is traceable from folk music forms).

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URL: http://www.cyclesresearchinstitute.org/

Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.this is an interesting quote that seems to be attributed to a man named Alexander Tytler, but as the website below attests, is perhaps not by him at all and merely given attribution to add imperative or consequence. In other words, it is a quote, an oscillation, about cycles, which while in circulation, passes into spin to subsequently give it added weight. Consequently, the negative feedback regarding the attribution found on the site below would seek to reduce the spin and consequently reduce weight and sedimentation of the quote within social networks. I'm not sure I even agree with the quote, but it does add illustration to the life cycle of memes.

A nice website, which while simple, states its simple message with enough elegance and finesse to make it worthwhile. Things run in cycles. Sounds familiar...