#chronopolitics

The Ontology of Silence: A Metaphysical, Ethical, and Political Inquiry into the Refusal to Speak in an Age of Compulsory Expression

Discipline without Obedience. Temporal Coherence as the Only Remaining Law

Title: Dwelling Within the Impermanent: Reclaiming Discontinuity in the Age of False Continuities

...the political control and management of time is becoming more important than the control and distribution of territory, meaning that ‘international relations is shifting from a realm defined by sovereign places, impermeable borders and rigid geopolitics, to a site of accelerating flows, contested borders and fluid chronopolitics’ (Der Derian 1992: 129-130)

Secondly, the denaturalization of time relates to a displacement of a chronopolitics of development that relies on an ideology of heteronormative or reproductive futurity.

. . . a critical analysis of the role Time is allowed to play as a condition for producing ethnographic knowledge in the practice of fieldwork may serve as a starting point for a critique of anthropological discourse.      . . .      . . . Beneath their bewildering variety, the distancing devices that we can identify produce a global result. I will call it denial of coevalness. By that I mean a persistent and systematic tendency to place the referent(s) of anthropology in a Time other than the present of the producer of anthropological discourse.      . . . If coevalness, sharing of present Time, is a condition of communication, and anthropological knowledge has its sources in ethnography, clearly a kind of communication, then the anthropologist qua ethnographer is not free to 'grant' or 'deny' coevalness to his interlocutors. Either he submits to the condition of coevalness and produces ethnographic knowledge, or he deludes himself into temporal distance and misses the object of his search.