War displaces people out of institutional calendrical time into survival time

Evidence

On their ultimate safari, the Mozambicans’ collective egress represents a history-driven descent into timelessness, though one quite remote from the fenced, managed timelessness of the tourist domain. When right-wing bandits scorched their Mozambican village church and schools, the girl and her siblings began to lose their footing in the institutional rhythms of calendrical time. Thereafter, as they flee through “the country of animals,” the days lose their names and traction; the old, structured rhythms of a now-destroyed village time give way to an improvised survival dependent on reading sun, sky, and animal behavior. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 558

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dramatic conflict overcomes time by condensing past and future into the present instant — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected Essays…, 118; Social change does not follow a single instrumental motive because people inhabit multiple temporalities — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 1064

Broader Connections

• Dramatic conflict overcomes time by condensing past and future into the present instant #complicates (0.80) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 118
• Social change does not follow a single instrumental motive because people inhabit multiple temporalities #expands (0.72) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 1064