The trap of 'multiple temporalities': it is possible to write without chronology
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Multiple temporalities, Synchronization of temporalities, Time-as-noum, Time-as-relationAbstract
In this paper, I attempt to answer the following questions: to what extent can we affirm, broadening the meaning of the phrase by Denise da Silva (2016), that "others" are "necessarily without time"?; why does the "other" appear to be carrying "another" temporality when it becomes visible?; why is the concept of "multiple temporalities" flawed at its origin?. In this regard, I attempt to show how, in constituting itself as a historical subject, the West transforms time-as-relation into time-as-noun and how the "problem" of the synchronization of the multiplicity of temporalities is its counterpart.
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