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Time and Disability: Why disability is fundamentally an issue of time Time is the mysterious underpinning to everything we do, and yet despite its power and influence over us, we rarely reflect on its implications for the ways in which we understand and structure our lives. This lecture will examine St. Augustine's idea that time is fallen and needs redemption. It will explore ways in which "clock time" is measured by productivity and has been made into "real time" in ways that are deeply problematic for everyone, particularly for those deemed unable "keep up." Time and disability are intimately connected, not only because disability challenges the idea of time but because certain key assumptions that comprise the category 'disability' are premised on mistaken and dangerous understandings of time. In these ways time has fallen and has become the oppressor of all who fail to meet the criteria for living well in a world ruled by clocks. Time needs to be redeemed.