The time of the world can no longer be conceived as a line. It is incr…

The time of the world can no longer be conceived as a line. It is increasingly experienced as a concatenation of multiple temporalities.

Achille Mbembe Connected to the Carolinas

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https://www.ucpress.edu/books/on-the-postcolony/paper]Mbembe discusses the changing nature of time, history, and modernity, arguing that different historical experiences exist simultaneously and shape contemporary life.

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“The time of the world can no longer be conceived as a line. …” Achille Mbembe. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-E557081E47. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/e557081e47

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