Control over space is simultaneously control over time and the past

Evidence

The struggle over space is also a struggle over time and who controls it. Resist neoliberal modernisation and (so we are told) you consign yourself to the past. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 467

Categorization

• DEFINE: Sharp condensation of the hauntological/political thesis: spatial development is a temporal weapon, consigning resisters to a discredited past.
• XREF: connects to: Enclosure of cheap urban space drove cultural conservatism by eliminating room for experimentation — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 471; Psychogeography has been gentrified into middle-class colonial exploration — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 482; By 1838 Europeans already conceived of space as a function of travel time — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 307 (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Motion emerges only for the For-itself as the temporal constitution of space #corroborates (0.75) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 643
• Three mechanisms drive modernity’s dynamism and process of time-space distanciation #expands (0.75) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 131
• Modern Western history moved from time-bias toward space-bias #expands (0.75) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 621
• Space and time are afterimages of the mode of production. #corroborates (0.75) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 783
• Freedom can objectify its own past, rupturing temporal continuity with the instant #complicates (0.72)
• Modernism privileges temporal experience while postmodernism subordinates time to space #expands (0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 367
• Social order is fundamentally about how systems bind time and space #expands (0.72) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 44
• Control of time enables coordination of activity and social control #qualifies (0.70) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 848
• Space adds nothing to being but is continuously spatialized through the For-itself’s ekstatic temporalization #corroborates (0.70) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 590
• Treating time as a series of nows annihilates past, present, and future alike #exemplifies (0.70) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 408
• Dramatic conflict overcomes time by condensing past and future into the present instant #contradicts (0.70) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 118
• Timeless time arises when events lose duration, rhythm, and sequence #expands (0.70) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 573