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Monsters &

Immiscible Times

How can we decolonize time itself?

How

do w

e ex

perie

nce

time?

In brief, the clock is the exemplar of ‘homogenous,

empty time,’… The clock graphically represents time as

spatial and measurable: a

number line is grafted onto its

radial face so that progress in

space of the clock hand, moving across its circular

trajectory, coincides with the

passage of time… The future

yawns before me, and for

everyone else, as predictable,

empty, uniform series of recurring, measured intervals,

waiting to be filled with experiences. (10)

Dena

tura

lizin

g or

qu

eerin

g tim

e

But for the critics of empty, homogenous time, of what I am calling

modern time consciousness, clock time

does not tell the truth of duration but exemplifies a socially objectivated temporality, one that remains ‘indispensable but inadequate’ - a necessary illusion that must be exposed. (10)

The

Regi

me

of

Mode

rn T

ime

Regulates periods of work and leisureObscures alternative

conceptions of timeInsists on developmental notions of linear progress that can be deployed in colonial domination (11)

Impe

rial

Time

& Sp

ace

Imperialist discourse depended on a temporal strategy in which radical cultural differences brought to light by colonial

contact were framed as primitive or anachronistic

(13) Women and the primitive do not inhabit history proper (14) the globe as a kind of clock

(14)

Prog

ress

Not

es

Katherine Cruz speaks only pidgin, and Ms. Takara and I think that she is the reason for Mai-Lan’s inattentiveness and

worsening study habits. Will you discourage Mai-Lan from associating with

Katherine Cruz? By doing so, her grasp of the English language should improve immensely (Linmark 52)

Unru

ly An

achr

onism

The past is never past; it defines the present; it leans into the present (15)

Ways of being in the world

that were profoundly different from those of European colonizers were

represented as anachronisms – pre-modern, primitive, and superstitious (16).

diwa

ta ta

ga

ilog

at d

agat

elders say when ships, when the

nailed god came, his hairy men /

christened her demon, they forbade

her offerings, they erected

bamboo / fences in the shadows, stil

the elders whisper, sometimes sing.when undertow captures foolish

boy, / lotus flower petals in

monsoon.

when she finds he is not to her

liking, / lotus flower feast for

typhoon

the

time

of g

ods

The refusal to see worlds in which ghosts and other

supernatural forces exist as coeval or contemporaneous with

the modern at once excludes the peasant (and a whole host of frequently feminized ‘superstitious’ others) while naturalizing modern

historical time as universal

cinem

atic

imm

iscib

le ti

me

…film as well as certain genres – fiction in a ‘nonrealist or magic-realist

mode’ – that is, cinema and

the fantastic, hold out the

possibility of a scandalous,

nonsociological translation of

plural, enchanted worlds (25)

The fantastic as temporal

translation can, at its most

uncanny, allude to the ‘always

possible menace of a space

outside language,’ of a world

outside our familiar time (32)