Modern secular society contains multiple incommensurable temporalities, not one homogeneous time.

Evidence

So much for questions of space in modern secular society—the alleged absence of hierarchy and supposed dependence on horizontal solidarity. What about time? Here, too, the reality is more complex than Taylor’s model suggests. The homogeneous time of state bureaucracies and market dealings is of course central to the calculations of modern political economy. It allows speed and direction to be plotted with precision. But there are other temporalities—immediate and mediated, reversible and nonreversible—by which individuals in a heterogeneous society live and by which therefore their political responses are shaped. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 31

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the notion of multiple temporalities in Berger’s ‘alterity’ and to the reader’s interest in how media technologies shape shared time, echoing Carey’s work on communication and time. — connects to: Temporal succession is a uniting division, not sheer separation