Footwork’s frustrated temporality offers a way out of identity prisons and time-traps

Evidence

More importantly, he suggests that — against all the odds — we might still be able to dance our way out of the time-traps and identity prisons we are locked in. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1336

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: The idea that inhabiting a stuttering, frustrated temporality rather than escaping it is the route to freedom could seed a narrative where a character escapes a trap by embracing its jerky repetition instead of smooth transcendence.
• XREF: connects to: Timetables impose abstract time onto bodily activity as an external frame — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 259; Timeless time arises when events lose duration, rhythm, and sequence — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 573; Freedom can objectify its own past, rupturing temporal continuity with the instant

Broader Connections

• Timeless time arises when events lose duration, rhythm, and sequence #expands (0.72) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 573
• Timetables impose abstract time onto bodily activity as an external frame #expands (0.70) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 259
• Freedom can objectify its own past, rupturing temporal continuity with the instant #qualifies (0.70)