Context collapse has a temporal counterpart that dissolves history into amnesia

Evidence

AS NO SENSE OF PLACE attests, context collapse is something we can understand spatially. But this process has a temporal cousin, which is an analogous collapse into a permanent instantaneity. Just as a series of rooms are dissolved into one big “situation,” instantaneity flattens past, present, and future into a constant, amnesiac present. The order of events, so important for understanding anything, gets drowned out by a constant alarm bell. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 553

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the temporal twin of spatial context collapse: instantaneity as an amnesiac present.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing focus on attention research and communication theory (e.g. Innis on time-bias vs space-bias). — connects to: History’s collapse fragments events into repeating phases rather than ending them — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 223