My client's utterance, and how deeply it resonated with me, shines a light on
temporality, a dimension of being-with-trauma that I have thus far not given much attention to.
Temporality, Genre and Experience in the Age of Shakespeare: Forms of Time.
Robert Stolorow a psychoanalyst and philosopher talks about how trauma is timeless and outside of time and how it breaks up the unifying thread of
temporality.
Champion is interested in how time was kept, described, experienced, and produced, and more specifically how
temporality could be rendered meaningful through sound, ritual, and image.
Barker looks to the operation of technical media that stand in the way of the smooth transition from past to present to future, whether it be forward or backward, and in this sense, offers alternatives to historical
temporality. He investigates the shift from the synthetic media--such as cinema and print--that characterized modernity, to the measurement and storage media--such as databases, photography, and digital television--that now characterize the conditions for contemporaneity by producing new temporal systems in which events are mediated and new types of histories are able to be written.
"From this novel theorization of
temporality emerges", Fuhrmann writes, "the assertion that the past is never left behind but persists into the present and remains coeval with it" (Fuhrmann 2016, p.
This paper develops conceptual models of (i) repressive
temporality of common sense and (ii) emancipative
temporality of critical thinking.
Such an understanding of
temporality more fully acknowledges the various fields of possibility that open before (and behind) being or subjectivity in each present moment, rendering the possibilities within those fields more immediately realizable.
This work is a critique of the experience of postcolonial, postsocialist
temporality. The case study at its core is the demise of the Grenada Revolution (1979-1983), and the repercussions of its collapse.
The first section discusses cultural aspects of
temporality and the historicity of media and social change in more general terms, and the latter two introduce more specific temporalities, experiences, and material technologies.