History’s collapse fragments events into repeating phases rather than ending them
Evidence
Closing down, closing down! It’s the end-of-the century sale. Everything must go! Modernity is over (without ever having happened), the orgy is over, the party is over—the sales are starting … We have lost history and have also, as a result, lost the end of history. We are laboring under the illusion of the end. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 223
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Longue durée history erases circulatory history via linear Eurocentric time.; Context collapse has a temporal counterpart that dissolves history into amnesia — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 553; Century-based periodization misframes the rhythms of historical process — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 846 (+3 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Longue durée history erases circulatory history via linear Eurocentric time.; Context collapse has a temporal counterpart that dissolves history into amnesia — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 553; Century-based periodization misframes the rhythms of historical process — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 846 (+3 more)