Temporal concordance among time levels is contested and always political.

Evidence

With the help of sacred time, everyday time, the time of life and the time of the world are bound together in a meaningful whole that orients culture and action, one in which cultural patterns and structural necessities, systemic requirements and actor perspectives are made congruent. This temporal concordance is by no means always already secured. Instead it has to be produced in political and social processes of contestation. This makes clear how much the establishment and harmonization of the three social levels of time is always connected to questions of social and political power. The question who determines the rhythm, duration, sequencing, and synchronization of activities and events forms a central arena for conflicts of interest and power struggles. Chronopolitics is thus a central component of any form of domination, and in the historical process, as, above all, Paul Virilio never tires of postulating and elucidating, domination is as a rule the domination of the faster. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 100

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces ‘chronopolitics’ and Virilio’s ‘domination is domination of the faster.’
• DEEPTHINKING: The claim that the harmonization of everyday/life/world time is never settled but must be won through power struggles, and that control over rhythm and sequencing is a chief arena of domination, is a dense, generative idea about why pace is political.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interests in how power is exercised through everyday structuration; resonates with work on temporal governance and sync regimes. — connects to: Multiple coexisting temporalities, not just homogeneous time, shape political responses.; History is always narrated through present relations of power — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2691; A concept’s very contestedness is what keeps it politically alive. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 310 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Multiple coexisting temporalities, not just homogeneous time, shape political responses. #expands (0.85)
• A concept’s very contestedness is what keeps it politically alive. #exemplifies (0.82) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 310
• History is always narrated through present relations of power #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2691
• Institutional tempo and actors’ temporal orientations can diverge and desynchronize. #complicates (0.75) — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 113
• Political identities are always historically constructed and positional, never fixed #corroborates (0.72)