“Atemporality” covers the transition out of capitalism proper pretty well (~1974 - 2016). I’m trying to make “multitemprality” happen for 2016 onwards. Industrial Standard Time —> Anomic Standard Time —> Weirding Standard Time. @nils_gilman
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“Capitalist time” might be the exact phrase you’re looking for?
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In my work settler time and capitalist time are sometimes conflated, I’m still working on a more detailed theoretical framework to support how I talk about Indigenous time as different from that. But I’m following this thread for reading tips, thanks!
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For lefty polemical frameworks, I found Jay Griffith’s A Sideways Look at Time and Jeremy Rifkin’s Time Wars entertaining and occasionally insightful if not exactly rigorous. Robert Levine’s Geography of Time is also fun.
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“Capitalist time” isn’t great since in my view temporality shift preceded, partly caused, and is broader than capitalism-related aspects. Huygens pendulum clock was ~1656. The strong coupling with commerce took ~80y to develop (I date it to Harrison chronometer, 1730s)
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