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No Linear Fucking Time Bibliography

Author(s)
Natasha Matteson, Amelia Groom, Lou Rosenkranz, Rachael Rakes, and Wietske Maas

The “No Linear Fucking Time Bibliography” is an evolving resource which compiles selected scholarly and artistic texts relating to the various strands of study involved in this project.

With hyperlinked key terms including “colonization of time,” “cyclical time,” “crip time,” “queer temporalities,” “carceral time,” and “time travel,” the constellation of sources is intended as a resource for research within the expansive and interrelated fields of critical time studies. Compiled by Natasha Matteson, Amelia Groom, Lou Rosenkranz, Rachael Rakes, and Wietske Maas.

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Graffiti found in Oakland, California in 2020, artist unknown, photograph by Esmat Elhalaby, courtesy Esmat Elhalaby
No Linear Fucking Time Bibliography
Abdullahi, Nasra, and Miriam Hillawi Abraham. “The Horn of Africa: Fracturing Timelines.” THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE 36, They Have Clocks, We Have Time, June 2021, https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/they-have-clocks-we-have-time/the-horn-of-africa-fracturing-timelines.

Blackness and time; Colonization of time; Cyclical time; Demise of our planet; Geologic time; Local time; Memoricide / Erasure; Nonlinear time; Retrofuturism; Speculative imaginaries; Time travel

Adam, Barbara. Timescapes of Modernity: The Environment and Invisible Hazards. Global Environmental Change Series. Oxfordshire: Taylor and Francis, Routledge, 1998.

Apocalyptic temporality; Cyclical time; Decay / entropy; Demise of our planet; Industrial time; Labor; Nonlinear time; Relativity; Rhythm; Risk; Slow violence

Adusei-Poku, Nana. “Post-Post-Black?” NKA Journal of Contemporary African Art 2016, 38–39 (November 2016), pp. 80–89. https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-3641711.

Archive; Blackness and time; Diaspora / Displacement; Heterotemporality; Risk; The time of slavery; Time in art

Allen-Paisant, Jason. “Reclaiming Time On Blackness and Landscape.” PN Review 257, no. 3, pp. 31–34.

Blackness and time

——. Thinking with Trees. Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2021.

Blackness and time

Alliez, Eric. Capital Times: Tales from the Conquest of Time (1991); Translated by Georges van den Abbeele. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Industrial time; Labor

Angie Morrill, Eve Tuck, and Super Futures Haunt Qollective. “Before Dispossession, or Surviving It.” Liminalities 12, no. 1 (2016), pp. 1–15.

Archive; Colonization of time; Haunting; Indigenous temporalities; Memoricide / Erasure; Settler time; Speculative imaginaries; Time in art; Time travel

Arfaoui, Meryem-Bahia. “Time and the Colonial State.” THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE 36, They Have Clocks, We Have Time June 2021, https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/they-have-clocks-we-have-time/time-and-the-colonial-state.

Carceral time; Colonization of time; Local time; Memoricide / Erasure; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Settler time; Standardization; Time travel

Ayewa, Camae, and Rasheedah Phillips. “Black Quantum Futurism: ‘Black Diasporan temporalities share many parallels with quantum principles.’” CERN Collide Interviews, March 2021, https://arts.cern/article/black-quantum-futurism-black-diasporan-temporalities-share-many-parallels-quantum.

Agency; Blackness and time; Colonization of time; Heterotemporality; Local time; Memoricide / Erasure; Non-human time; Nonlinear time; Relativity; Retrofuturism; Rhythm; Settler time; Speculative imaginaries; Standardization; Time in art; Time travel

Azoulay, Ariella Aïsha. Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism. London: Verso, 2019.

Agency; Archive; Blackness and time; Colonization of time; Diaspora / Displacement; Haunting; Imperial temporality; Memoricide / Erasure; Nonlinear time; Speculative imaginaries; The time of slavery; Time in art

Bailey, Moya. “The Ethics of Pace.” South Atlantic Quarterly 120, no. 2, Crip Temporalities (April 2021), pp. 285–299. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8916032

Crip time; Waiting; labor

Barad, Karen. “Troubling Time/s and Ecologies of Nothingness: Re-Turning, Re-Membering, and Facing the Incalculable.” New Formations: A Journal of Culture/Theory/Politics 92, no. 1 (2018), pp. 56–86.

Apocalyptic temporality; Colonization of time; Decay / entropy; Haunting; Memoricide / Erasure; Non-human time; Relativity; Time in art; Time travel

Baraitser, Lisa. Enduring Time. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.

Carceral time; Crip time; Cyclical time; Decay / entropy; Feminist temporalities; Haunting; Labor; Memoricide / Erasure; Psychoanalysis; Nonlinear time; Queer temporalities; Slow violence; Time in art; Time travel; Waiting

Bastian, Michelle. “Inventing Nature: Re-Writing Time and Agency in a More-than-Human World.” Australian Humanities Review 47 (2009), pp. 99–116. https://doi.org/10.22459/AHR.47.2009.10.

Agency; Cyclical time; Demise of our planet; Non-human time; Nonlinear time; Time in art; Waiting

——. “Time and Community: A Scoping Study.” Time & Society 23, no. 2 (July 2014), pp. 137–66. https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X14527999.

Archive; Cyclical time; Diaspora / Displacement; Feminist temporalities; Heterotemporality; Local time; Memoricide / Erasure; Nonlinear time; Queer temporalities; Rhythm

Baucom, Ian. History 4° Celsius: Search for a Method in the Age of the Anthropocene. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020.

Agency; Apocalyptic temporality; Blackness and time; Colonization of time; Demise of our planet; Geologic time; Heterotemporality; Industrial time; Messianic time; Non-human time; Revolt / Revolutionary time; The time of slavery; Time in art

Beacock, Ian P. “A Brief History of (Modern) Time.” The Atlantic, December 2015, https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/the-creation-of-modern-time/421419/.

Industrial time; Local time; Messianic time; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Standardization

Boudry, Pauline, Renate Lorenz, and Charlotte Laubard, editors. Moving Backwards: Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz. Milan: Skira, 2019.

Archive; Colonization of time; Cyclical time; Feminist temporalities; Heterotemporality; Nonlinear time; Queer temporalities; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Rhythm; Speculative imaginaries; Time in art; Time travel

Browne, Victoria. Feminism, Time, and Nonlinear History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Archive; Colonization of time; Feminist temporalities; Imperial temporality; Memoricide / Erasure; Standardization; The time of slavery

Bueso, José Manuel. “Derivación Total: Tesis sobre Espacio-Tiempo Urbano / Total Drift: Theses on Urban Space-Times.” Re-visiones, no. 4 (2014). https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=6828189.

Agency; Apocalyptic temporality; Blackness and time; Colonization of time; Cyclical time; Diaspora / Displacement; Geologic time; Heterotemporality; Imperial temporality; Labor; Nonlinear time; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Risk; Settler time; Slow violence; Speculative imaginaries; The time of slavery; Time in art

Burges, Joel, and Amy Elias. Time: A Vocabulary of the Present. New York: NYU Press, 2016.

Colonization of time; Demise of our planet; Diaspora / Displacement; Geologic time; Labor; Messianic time; Non-human time; Nonlinear time; Queer temporalities; Relativity; Retrofuturism; Rhythm; Standardization; Time in art

Canaries Collective. Notes for the Waiting Room. Edited by Taraneh Fazeli, 2016. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/537c9eb6e4b0ca838c2f4f52/t/5eaafc3bc2609667f6a9ae23/1588264038420/NFTWR_LincoV5.pdf

Agency; Crip time; Demise of our planet; Feminist temporalities; Labor; Nonlinear time; Queer temporalities; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Risk; Seed time; Slow violence; Speculative imaginaries; Standardization; Time in art; Waiting

Cepeda, María Elena. “Thrice Unseen, Forever on Borrowed Time: Latina Feminist Reflections on Mental Disability and the Neoliberal Academy.” South Atlantic Quarterly 120, no. 2, Crip Temporalities (April 2021), pp. 301–320. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8916046

Crip time; Pandemic time; Labor; Nonlinear time

Chan, Paul. “A Time Apart.” In Greater New York, edited by Klaus Biesenbach, pp. 84–85. New York: MoMA PS1, 2010.

Time in art

Copeland, Huey, and Meg Onli. “ABOUT TIME: Huey Copeland in Conversation with Meg Onli.” Artforum, May 2019, https://www.artforum.com/print/201905/huey-copeland-in-conversation-with-meg-onli-79522.

Agency; Archive; Blackness and time; Carceral time; Diaspora / Displacement; Heterotemporality; Industrial time; Labor; Non-human time; Nonlinear time; Queer temporalities; Retrofuturism; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Rhythm; Risk; Speculative imaginaries; The time of slavery; Time in art; Waiting

Danowski, Déborah, and Eduardo Batalha Viveiros de Castro. The Ends of the World. Translated by Rodrigo Nunes. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2017.

Agency; Apocalyptic temporality; Demise of our planet; Geologic time; Non-human time; Slow violence; Waiting

Daye, Kevin Bernard Moultrie. “Extraorthographics.” THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE 36, They Have Clocks, We Have Time, June 2021, https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/they-have-clocks-we-have-time/extraorthogaphics.

Agency; Archive; Heterotemporality; Indigenous temporalities; Labor; Memoricide / Erasure; Nonlinear time; Retrofuturism; Speculative imaginaries; Standardization; Time in art

De Landa, Manuel. A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History. New York: Zone Books, 1997.

Cyclical time; Diaspora / Displacement; Geologic time; Industrial time; Non-human time; Nonlinear time; Rhythm; Seed time; Speculative imaginaries

Dean, Tim. “Bareback Time.” In Queer Times, Queer Becomings, edited by E. L. McCallum and Mikko Tuhkanen. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2011.

Agency; Crip time; Haunting; Memoricide / Erasure; Non-human time; Queer temporalities; Retrofuturism; Risk; Slow violence; Waiting

Dinshaw, Carolyn, Lee Edelman, Roderick Ferguson, Carla Freccero, Elizabeth Freeman, Judith Halberstam, Annamarie Jagose, Christopher Nealon, and Tan Nguyen. “Theorizing Queer Temporalities: A Roundtable Discussion.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 13, no. 2–3, Queer Temporalities (2007), pp. 177–195. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2006-030.

Archive; Heterotemporality; Memoricide / Erasure; Non-human time; Nonlinear time; Queer temporalities; Retrofuturism; Speculative imaginaries

Ellis, JJJJJerome. “The clearing: Music, dysfluency, Blackness and time.” Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies 5 (December 2020), pp. 215–33. https://doi.org/10.1386/jivs_00026_1.

Blackness and time; Crip time; Nonlinear time; Rhythm; Speculative imaginaries; The time of slavery; Waiting

Eshun, Kodwo. “Further Considerations of Afrofuturism.” CR: The New Centennial Review 3, no. 2 (2003), pp. 287–302. https://doi.org/10.1353/ncr.2003.0021.

Archive; Blackness and time; Diaspora / Displacement; Haunting; Memoricide / Erasure; Nonlinear time; Retrofuturism; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Rhythm; Risk; Speculative imaginaries; The time of slavery; Time in art

Estes, Nick. Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance. London: Verso, 2019.

Agency; Apocalyptic temporality; Colonization of time; Demise of our planet; Imperial temporality; Indigenous temporalities; Industrial time; Memoricide / Erasure; Non-human time; Retrofuturism; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Rhythm; Settler time; Speculative imaginaries

Fabian, Johannes. Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.

Agency; Archive; Colonization of time; Cyclical time; Imperial temporality; Industrial time; Local time; Relativity; Settler time; Standardization

Fazeli, Taraneh. “Notes for ‘Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Crip Time: Against Capitalism’s Temporal Bullying’ in Conversation with the Canaries.” Temporary Art Review, May 2016, https://temporaryartreview.com/notes-for-sick-time-sleepy-time-crip-time-against-capitalisms-temporal-bullying-in-conversation-with-the-canaries/.

Agency; Crip time; Decay / entropy; Feminist temporalities; Labor; Non-human time; Nonlinear time; Queer temporalities; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Risk; Speculative imaginaries; Time in art; Waiting

Ferreira Da Silva, Denise. “Unpayable Debt: Reading Scenes of Value against the Arrow of Time.” The Documenta 14 Reader, edited by Quinn Latimer and Adam Szymczyk. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2017.

Agency; Blackness and time; Carceral time; Colonization of time; Haunting; Heterotemporality; Labor; Nonlinear time; Relativity; Retrofuturism; Risk; Speculative imaginaries; The time of slavery; Time in art; Time travel

Fleetwood, Nicole R. Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020.

Agency; Blackness and time; Carceral time; Colonization of time; Feminist temporalities; Haunting; Heterotemporality; Labor; Memoricide / Erasure; Risk; Speculative imaginaries; Standardization; The time of slavery; Time in art; Waiting

Freeman, Elizabeth. Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.

Agency; Archive; Feminist temporalities; Haunting; Nonlinear time; Queer temporalities; Retrofuturism; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Risk; Speculative imaginaries; The time of slavery; Time in art; Time travel

——. “Introduction.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 13, no. 2–3, Queer Temporalities (2007), pp. 159–176. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2006-029

Queer temporalities

French, Daniel. When They Hid the Fire: A History of Electricity and Invisible Energy in America. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017.

Demise of our planet; Industrial time; Labor; Memoricide / Erasure; Risk; Slow violence; Standardization

Garcés, Marina. “Conditio Posthuma.” The Great Regression, 2017. http://www.thegreatregression.eu/conditio-posthuma/.

Agency; Apocalyptic temporality; Cyclical time; Decay / entropy; Demise of our planet; Haunting; Memoricide / Erasure; Messianic time; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Slow violence; Standardization

Graeber, David. “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit.” The Baffler 19, March 2012, https://thebaffler.com/salvos/of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit.

Industrial time; Labor; Retrofuturism; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Speculative imaginaries; Time in art; Waiting

Groom, Amelia. Time. London and Cambridge, MA: Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press, 2013.

Archive; Cyclical time; Decay / entropy; Labor; Memoricide / Erasure; Nonlinear time; Relativity; Speculative imaginaries; Standardization; Time in art; Waiting

Halberstam, Jack. In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives. New York: NYU Press, 2005.

Queer temporalities; Feminist temporalities; Time in art; Heterotemporality; Local time

Hartman, Saidiya V. “The Time of Slavery.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 101, no. 4 (2002), pp. 757–77.

Blackness and time; Colonization of time; Diaspora / Displacement; Haunting; Memoricide / Erasure; Nonlinear time; Retrofuturism; The time of slavery; Time travel

Hlavajova, Maria and Simon Sheikh, editors. Former West: Art and the Contemporary after 1989. Utrecht and Cambridge, MA: BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and MIT Press, 2016.

Time in art; Time travel;

van Heeswijk, Jeanne, Maria Hlavajova and Rachael Rakes, editors. Toward the Not-Yet: Art as Public Practice. Utrecht and Cambridge, MA: BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and MIT Press, 2021.

adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha, editors. Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2015.

Ikoniadou, Eleni. The Rhythmic Event: Art, Media, and the Sonic. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014.

Cyclical time; Non-human time; Relativity; Rhythm; Speculative imaginaries; Time in art

Jacir, Emily. “Time Standardization, Clock Towers & Colonialism in Ireland and Palestine.” THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE 36, They Have Clocks, We Have Time, June 2021, https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/they-have-clocks-we-have-time/time-standardization-clock-towers-colonialism-in-ireland-and-palestine.

Archive; Colonization of time; Cyclical time; Heterotemporality; Imperial temporality; Local time; Memoricide / Erasure; Nonlinear time; Retrofuturism; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Settler time; Standardization; Time in art

Kafer, Alison. “After Crip, Crip Afters.” South Atlantic Quarterly 120, no. 2, Crip Temporalities (April 2021), pp. 415–34. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8916158.

Carceral time; Crip time; Labor; Nonlinear time; Queer temporalities; Rhythm; Slow violence; Waiting

Keeling, Kara. Queer Times, Black Futures. New York and Baltimore, MD: New York University Press and Project MUSE, 2019.

Agency; Apocalyptic temporality; Blackness and time; Colonization of time; Cyclical time; Haunting; Imperial temporality; Indigenous temporalities; Labor; Queer temporalities; Retrofuturism; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Risk; Speculative imaginaries; The time of slavery; Time in art

Khosravi, Shahram. “Waiting Bodies in Dictatorial and Bordering Regimes.” THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE 36, They Have Clocks, We Have Time, June 2021, https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/they-have-clocks-we-have-time/waiting-bodies-in-dictatorial-and-bordering-regimes.

Agency; Colonization of time; Imperial temporality; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Settler time; Slow violence; Waiting

Knouf, Adriana (2020). Xenological Temporalities in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Lovecraft, and Transgender Experiences. Studies in the Fantastic 9, no. 1, pp. 23–43.

Krenak, Ailton. Ideas to Postpone the End of the World. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2020.

Agency; Apocalyptic temporality; Colonization of time; Demise of our planet; Geologic time; Indigenous temporalities; Non-human time; Rhythm; Settler time; Slow violence; Speculative imaginaries

Lambert, Léopold. “They Have Clocks, We Have Time: Introduction.” THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE 36, They Have Clocks, We Have Time, June 2021, https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/they-have-clocks-we-have-time/they-have-clocks-we-have-time-introduction.

Colonization of time; Cyclical time; Geologic time; Imperial temporality; Indigenous temporalities; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Speculative imaginaries; Standardization; The time of slavery; Waiting

Le Goff, Jacques. Time, Work and Culture in the Middle Ages. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Industrial time; Labor

Lepecki, Andre. “Infinite Retrogression: Backwardforward Motions for Another Life.” In Moving Backwards: Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, 2019.

Cyclical time; Feminist temporalities; Nonlinear time; Queer temporalities; Relativity; Retrofuturism; Revolt / Revolutionary time

Lloyd, David. “Redemptive Constellations: Irish-Palestinian Relays in Emily Jacir’s Notes for a Cannon.” Third Text 34, no. 3 (May 2020), pp. 327–49. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2020.1814079.

Archive; Carceral time; Colonization of time; Diaspora / Displacement; Heterotemporality; Imperial temporality; Indigenous temporalities; Industrial time; Labor; Local time; Memoricide / Erasure; Nonlinear time; Retrofuturism; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Rhythm; Settler time; Standardization; Time in art

Lorenz, Renate. Not Now! Now! Chronopolitics, Art & Research. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014.

Archive; Blackness and time; Colonization of time; Cyclical time; Feminist temporalities; Haunting; Heterotemporality; Imperial temporality; Memoricide / Erasure; Nonlinear time; Queer temporalities; Retrofuturism; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Rhythm; The time of slavery; Time in art; Time travel

Lazard, Carolyn. How to be a Person in the Age of Autoimmunity. 2021, https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55c40d69e4b0a45eb985d566/t/58cebc9dc534a59fbdbf98c2/1489943709737/HowtobeaPersonintheAgeofAutoimmunity+%281%29.pdf

——. “Colostomy Fannypack.” The Deaf Poets Society 3. 2017. https://www.deafpoetssociety.com/carolyn-lazard

Lütticken, Sven. History in Motion: Time in the Age of the Moving Image. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2013.

Standardization; Time in art; Labor; Industrial time; Revolt / Revolutionary time

Malabou, Catherine. “The Brain of History, Or, the Mentality of the Anthropocene.” The South Atlantic Quarterly 116, no. 1 (2017), pp. 39–53. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-3749304.

Apocalyptic temporality; Archive; Demise of our planet; Geologic time; Non-human time; Slow violence

Malik, Suhail. “When Is Contemporary Art?” In Former West: Art and the Contemporary after 1989, edited by Simon Sheikh and Maria Hlavajova. Utrecht and Cambridge, MA: BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and MIT Press, 2016. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/former-west.

Heterotemporality; Imperial temporality; Relativity; Retrofuturism; Standardization; Time in art

Marks, Gregory. “Apocalypse Never: Walter Benjamin and the Deferral of the End.” The Wasted World, January 2021, https://thewastedworld.wordpress.com/2021/01/16/apocalypse-benjamin/.

Agency; Apocalyptic temporality; Cyclical time; Decay / entropy; Demise of our planet; Geologic time; Industrial time; Messianic time; Non-human time; Nonlinear time; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Standardization; Time in art; Waiting

McPhee, John. Annals of the Former World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

Cyclical time; Decay / entropy; Geologic time; Non-human time; Nonlinear time

Mills, Charles W. “The Chronopolitics of Racial Time.” Time & Society 29, no. 2 (March 2020). https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X20903650.

Apocalyptic temporality; Blackness and time; Colonization of time; Demise of our planet; Imperial temporality; Messianic time; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Settler time; The time of slavery

Mirzoeff, Nicholas. “Below the Water: Black Lives Matter and Revolutionary Time.” e-flux Journal 79, February 2017, https://www.e-flux.com/journal/79/94164/below-the-water-black-lives-matter-and-revolutionary-time/.

Agency; Apocalyptic temporality; Archive; Blackness and time; Colonization of time; Cyclical time; Demise of our planet; Geologic time; Heterotemporality; Indigenous temporalities; Industrial time; Labor; Local time; Memoricide / Erasure; Messianic time; Non-human time; Queer temporalities; Relativity; Retrofuturism; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Settler time; Speculative imaginaries; Standardization; The time of slavery

Muñoz, Jose Esteban. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity. New York: University Press, 2009.

Agency; Archive; Memoricide / Erasure; Nonlinear time; Queer temporalities; Retrofuturism; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Risk; Speculative imaginaries; Time in art; Waiting

Nanni, Giordano. The Colonisation of Time: Ritual, Routine, and Resistance in the British Empire. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012.

Colonization of time; Imperial temporality; Indigenous temporalities; Industrial time; Labor; Local time; Memoricide / Erasure; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Rhythm; Settler time; Standardization; The time of slavery

Nixon, Rob. Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.

Apocalyptic temporality; Colonization of time; Decay / entropy; Demise of our planet; Geologic time; Haunting; Industrial time; Memoricide / Erasure; Non-human time; Nonlinear time; Slow violence

Ogle, Vanessa. The Global Transformation of Time: 1870–1950. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015.

Colonization of time; Imperial temporality; Indigenous temporalities; Industrial time; Labor; Local time; Memoricide / Erasure; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Settler time; Standardization

Pandian, Anand. A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478004370.

Agency; Apocalyptic temporality; Archive; Demise of our planet; Indigenous temporalities; Labor; Non-human time; Retrofuturism; Rhythm; Speculative imaginaries; Time in art

Pardlo, Gregory. “Colored People’s Time.” Callaloo 39, no. 2 (2016), pp. 361–371.

Phillips, Rasheedah. “Counter Clockwise: Unmapping Black Temporalities from Greenwich Mean Timelines.” THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE 36, They Have Clocks, We Have Time, June 2021, https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/they-have-clocks-we-have-time/counter-clockwise-unmapping-black-temporalities-from-greenwich-mean-timelines.

Agency; Blackness and time; Carceral time; Colonization of time;; Diaspora / Displacement; Heterotemporality; Imperial temporality; Industrial time; Labor; Local time; Memoricide / Erasure; Non-human time; Nonlinear time; Retrofuturism; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Settler time; Standardization; The time of slavery

——. “Placing Time, Timing Space: Dismantling the Master’s Map and Clock.” THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE 18, Cartography & Power, July 2018, https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/cartography-power/placing-time-timing-space-dismantling-masters-map-clock-rasheedah-phillips.

Agency; Blackness and time; Colonization of time; Imperial temporality; Labor; Local time; Memoricide / Erasure; Nonlinear time; Relativity; Retrofuturism; Speculative imaginaries; Standardization; The time of slavery

——. “The Nowness of Black Chronopolitical Imaginaries in the Afro/Retrofuture.” THE FUNAMBULIST MAGAZINE 24, Futurisms, June 2019, https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/24-futurisms/nowness-black-chronopolitical-imaginaries-afro-retrofuture-rasheedah-phillips.

Archive; Blackness and time; Colonization of time; Haunting; Heterotemporality; Imperial temporality; Industrial time; Local time; Memoricide / Erasure; Nonlinear time; Retrofuturism; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Speculative imaginaries; Standardization; The time of slavery; Time travel

Povinelli, Elizabeth A. “The Ancestral Present of Oceanic Illusions: Connected and Differentiated in Late Toxic Liberalism.” e-flux Journal 112, October 2020, https://www.e-flux.com/journal/112/352823/the-ancestral-present-of-oceanic-illusions-connected-and-differentiated-in-late-toxic-liberalism/.

Agency; Apocalyptic temporality; Colonization of time; Demise of our planet; Heterotemporality; Imperial temporality; Indigenous temporalities; Labor; Local time; Non-human time; Nonlinear time; Retrofuturism; Settler time; Slow violence; The time of slavery; Time in art

Price, Margaret. “Time Harms: Disabled Faculty Navigating the Accommodations Loop.” South Atlantic Quarterly 120, no. 2, Crip Temporalities (April 2021), pp. 257–277. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8915966

Crip time; Labor; Standardization

Puar, Jasbir K. “Spatial Debilities: Slow Life and Carceral Capitalism in Palestine.” South Atlantic Quarterly 120, no. 2, Crip Temporalities (April 2021), pp. 393–414. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8916144.

Archive; Blackness and time; Carceral time; Crip time; Diaspora / Displacement; Heterotemporality; Imperial temporality; Memoricide / Erasure; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Risk; Settler time; Slow violence; Standardization; The time of slavery; Time in art; Waiting

Puig de la Bellacasa, María. Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds. Posthumanities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctt1mmfspt.

Agency; Cyclical time; Demise of our planet; Feminist temporalities; Geologic time; Indigenous temporalities; Labor; Non-human time; Nonlinear time; Rhythm; Seed time; Slow violence; Speculative imaginaries

Pyne, Jake. “Autistic Disruptions, Trans Temporalities: A Narrative “Trap Door” in Time.” South Atlantic Quarterly 120, no. 2, Crip Temporalities (April 2021), pp. 343–361. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8916088

Crip time; Queer temporalities; Nonlinear time

Quijano, Aníbal. “Modernity, Identity, and Utopia in Latin America.” Boundary 2 20, no. 3 (1993), pp. 140–55. https://doi.org/10.2307/303346.

Agency; Colonization of time; Heterotemporality; Imperial temporality; Nonlinear time; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Speculative imaginaries

Quijano, Anibal, and Michael Ennis. “Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America.” Nepantla: Views from South 1, no. 3 (2000), pp. 533–580.

Colonization of time; Heterotemporality; Imperial temporality; Labor; Memoricide / Erasure; Nonlinear time; Standardization; The time of slavery

Radin, Joanna, Emma Kowal, Warwick Anderson, Michael Bravo, Jonny Bunning, Soraya de Chadarevian, Matthew Chrulew, Thom van Dooren, Alexander Friedrich, and Klaus Hoeyer. Cryopolitics: Frozen Life in a Melting World. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2017.

Agency; Apocalyptic temporality; Archive; Decay / entropy; Demise of our planet; Feminist temporalities; Geologic time; Haunting; Heterotemporality; Indigenous temporalities; Messianic time; Non-human time; Nonlinear time; Relativity; Retrofuturism; Seed time; Speculative imaginaries; Time travel; Waiting

Raqs Media Collective. “Now and Elsewhere.” e-flux journal 12, January 2010,

Time in art

——. “Planktons in the Sea: A Few Questions Regarding the Qualities of Time.” e-flux journal 27, September 2011, https://www.e-flux.com/journal/27/67985/planktons-in-the-sea-a-few-questions-regarding-the-qualities-of-time/

Time in art

Rifkin, Mark. Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017.

Colonization of time; Cyclical time; Diaspora / Displacement; Haunting; Heterotemporality; Imperial temporality; Indigenous temporalities; Industrial time; Labor; Local time; Memoricide / Erasure; Messianic time; Non-human time; Nonlinear time; Queer temporalities; Relativity; Retrofuturism; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Rhythm; Seed time; Settler time; Speculative imaginaries; The time of slavery; Time in art

Rose, Deborah Bird. “Multispecies Knots of Ethical Time.” Environmental Philosophy 9, no. 1 (2012), pp. 127–140. https://doi.org/10.5840/envirophil2012918.

Agency; Apocalyptic temporality; Cyclical time; Decay / entropy; Demise of our planet; Indigenous temporalities; Memoricide / Erasure; Non-human time; Nonlinear time; Relativity; Rhythm; Seed time; Slow violence

——. “Reflections on the Zone of the Incomplete.” In Cryopolitics, edited by Emma Kowal and Joanna Radin. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2017.

Agency; Apocalyptic temporality; Colonization of time; Demise of our planet; Geologic time; Haunting; Messianic time; Non-human time; Nonlinear time; Relativity; Slow violence; Speculative imaginaries; Standardization; Time travel

Rosen, Ralph Mark, editor. Time and Temporality in the Ancient World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2004.

Agency; Apocalyptic temporality; Archive; Cyclical time; Messianic time

Rovelli, Carlo. The Order of Time. New York: Riverhead Books, 2018.

Decay / entropy; Local time; Memoricide / Erasure; Nonlinear time; Relativity; Rhythm

Samuels, Ellen and Elizabeth Freeman. “Introduction: Crip Temporalities.” South Atlantic Quarterly 120, no. 2, Crip Temporalities (April 2021), pp. 245–254. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8915937

Labor; Crip time; queer temporalities; pandemic time; slow violence

Sia, Tiffany, and Yuri Pattison. Weird Times. Dublin: The Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2021.

Colonization of time; Cyclical time; Decay / entropy; Haunting; Imperial temporality; Industrial time; Labor; Local time; Memoricide / Erasure; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Settler time; Standardization

Smith, Mark M. Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Blackness and time; Colonization of time; Diaspora / Displacement; Imperial temporality; Labor; Standardization; The time of slavery

Stoler, Ann Laura. Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013.

Agency; Archive; Colonization of time; Decay / entropy; Demise of our planet; Diaspora / Displacement; Haunting; Heterotemporality; Imperial temporality; Industrial time; Labor; Local time; Memoricide / Erasure; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Settler time; Slow violence; Standardization; The time of slavery; Waiting

Sun Kim, Christine and Amanda Cachia. “Six Types of Waiting in Berlin, 2017.” South Atlantic Quarterly 120, no. 2, Crip Temporalities (April 2021), pp. 279–283. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-8915980

Crip time; Time in art, Waiting

Thompson, E. P. “Time, Work-Discipline and Industrial Capitalism.” Past and Present 38 (December 1967), pp. 56–97.

Industrial time; Labor

Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, and Nils Bubandt, editors. Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. Ghosts of the Anthropocene ; Monsters of the Anthropocene. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

Agency; Apocalyptic temporality; Cyclical time; Decay / entropy; Demise of our planet; Geologic time; Haunting; Indigenous temporalities; Queer temporalities; Relativity; Slow violence; Speculative imaginaries; Time in art

Wang, Jackie. Carceral Capitalism. South Pasadena, California: Semiotext(e) and Smart Art, 2018.

Agency; Blackness and time; Carceral time; Cyclical time; Diaspora / Displacement; Labor; Revolt / Revolutionary time; Risk; Settler time; The time of slavery; Time in art; Waiting

Woodcock, George. “The Tyranny of the Clock.” In War Commentary — For Anarchism 5, no. 10 (March 1944). http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/woodcock/sp001734.html

Industrial time; Labor

Yusoff, Kathryn. “Geologic Realism: On the Beach of Geologic Time.” Social Text 37, no. 1 (March 2019), pp. 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-7286240.

Agency; Apocalyptic temporality; Archive; Blackness and time; Colonization of time; Demise of our planet; Diaspora / Displacement; Feminist temporalities; Geologic time; Imperial temporality; Indigenous temporalities; Non-human time; Retrofuturism; Settler time; Slow violence; Speculative imaginaries; The time of slavery; Time in art

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