Longue durée history erases circulatory history via linear Eurocentric time.

Evidence

But such a narrativisation is question-begging, since the very credibility of this story relies upon the events of the strike unfolding as they did. What if they hadn’t? Under the aspect of eternity, everything is inevitable and we are all Spinozists. But life has to be lived “forward”, making us Sartreans. Reading the book now inevitably dramatises the tension between these two positions, between knowing that everything has already happened and acting as if it hasn’t. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 216 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Chronological periodization distorts the meaning of historical processes.; Late modern temporal experience yields drift and political fatalism — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration: A New Theory of…, 778; Buddhist time is cyclical individuation while the West makes generalized linear History — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 285 (+22 more)

Broader Connections

• The inevitability of history is an illusion of hindsight rather than real determinism #complicates (0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 216