Localized critique gains its justification from the specific historical moment

Evidence

It seems to me that we could justify the work we’ve been doing, in a somewhat empirical and haphazard way on both my part and yours, by saying that it was quite in keeping with a certain period; with the very limited period we have been living through for the last ten or fifteen years, twenty at the most. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 499

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Whether speaking of trees counts as political silence depends on the historical moment. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 377