Contemporary political struggles are ultimately wars over time.

Evidence

Given all of this, it is clear that most political struggles at the moment amount to a war over time. … The increase of debt justifies the extending of working hours and working life, with retirement age being pushed ever further back. We are in a state of harassed busyness from which — we are now promised — there will never be any relief. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1630

Categorization

• XREF: Reroutes the whole CR/neoliberal apparatus of earlier chapters (ch85, ch91, ch103) onto time as the true contested terrain and currency. — connects to: Struggles over the meaning of words constitute the political crisis itself — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 430; Multiple coexisting temporalities, not just homogeneous time, shape political responses.; Forms of popular struggle vary dramatically across place and time. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 252

Broader Connections

• Multiple coexisting temporalities, not just homogeneous time, shape political responses. #expands (0.80)
• Struggles over the meaning of words constitute the political crisis itself #exemplifies (0.75) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 430