Timeless time arises when events lose duration, rhythm, and sequence

Evidence

Underlying the concept of timeless time is the idea that time is formed by the duration, sequence, and rhythm of actions and events. Consequently, a social condition characterized by the elimination of duration, the purging of rhythm from social events, and the dissolution of fixed and stable sequential series (for instance, of the career or life course, the availability of foodstuffs in the course of the year, the types of action in the course of the day or week, etc.) can be described as “timeless” insofar as it is dominated by the modes of momentary simultaneity and, as its, so to speak, negative horizon, eternity. — Hartmut Rosa, Social Acceleration, 573

Categorization

• DEFINE: Castells’ ‘timeless time’ defined concretely as the condition of durationless, unrhythmed, nonsequential social events.
• XREF: connects to: Treating time as a series of nows annihilates past, present, and future alike — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 408; Scarcity of events raises their significance in slow music — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 429; Control over space is simultaneously control over time and the past — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 467 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Treating time as a series of nows annihilates past, present, and future alike #qualifies (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 408