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2. Monsters & Immiscible Times How can we decolonize time itself?

3. 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) How do we experience time?

4. 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) Denaturalizing or queering time

5. Regulates periods of work and leisure • Obscures alternative conceptions of time • Insists on developmental notions of linear progress that can be deployed in colonial domination (11) The Regime of Modern Time

6. 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) Imperial Time & Space

8. 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) Progress Notes

9. 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). Unruly Anachronism

10. 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 diwatatagailog at dagat

11. 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 the time of gods

12. …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) cinematic immiscible time