Untimeliness is a distrusting stance that shifts once it becomes fixed

Evidence

It is the elusive notion of “untimeliness” that provides some purchase on what Nietzsche might have considered it meant to be charmed. “Untimeliness” is at once a resolute, critical stance and a moving target— one no longer deemed critical once it is fixed. It is to look afresh at those analytic decorums of which our communities of interpretation are, as he put it, “rightly proud.” No methodological program is offered. Rather, Nietzsche proffers analytic tools for maintaining a distrusting posture. What he does is alert us to attend with suspicion to that which poses as most timely of all. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1366

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the operative definition of ‘untimeliness’ that organizes the chapter’s method.