An Interdisciplinary Forum on Time and Globalization WORKING PAPER SERIES

Emphasizing the echoes and continuities of colonialism in these disjunctions, Christopher Breu’s contribution offers ways to theorize the temporality of globalization in “more recursive and less linear ways.” Breu draws on Enrique Dussel’s theorization of “transmodernity,” which explains the persistence and recurrence of earlier forms of production (including slavery, and what David Harvey terms “. [...] Accordingly, the imperative to (re-)assert a degree of temporal control through the confrontation of uncertainty and the active governance of the future constitutes an important aspect of the broader socio-political experience of globalization. [...] Liam Stockdale, for instance, critically examines how, in the wake of 9/11, the question of temporal control—specifically, the taming of a potentially catastrophic future—has emerged as perhaps the primary governmental imperative in the global security realm, thus facilitating the rise of an anti-democratic politics that mirrors Agamben’s (2005) notion of the “exception.” Susie O’Brien takes up a. [...] Breu argues that the power over life and death—biopolitics and thanatopolitics—involves an ongoing mixture of governance practices from the past, the present, the global north and the global south. [...] Finally, in narrating a late night poetry reading by a group of Russia’s “New Page 5 IGHC Working Papers 12/3 Left,” Rethmann reflects on the relationship between time and politics in a post-socialist context, in which the construction of the future is also determined by imagination about the connections between the present and the past.