Datta, Ayona;
Hoefsloot, Fenna Imara;
(2025)
Timing the state.
Dialogues on Digital Society
10.1177/29768640251320737.
(In press).
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Abstract
We wish to express our gratitude to the interlocutors for their considered and thoughtful commentaries on our article. They invoke new questions around the power of the state in directing action towards acceleration, performance, untimeliness, time essences, thickets and passages, and creativity. In this response piece, we develop our contention that the state in a digital era needs to be reconceptualised through timing as a form of statecraft. We will suggest first that while the state is not a coherent entity, it is in its temporality across spaces, scales, and actors that we begin to see its performative nature as auteur. Second, we address the question of untimeliness in our paper as an inherent aspect of temporal power itself. Finally, we address the provocation to expand our work on the creative uses of temporality from the margins.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Timing the state |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/29768640251320737 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/29768640251320737 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Keywords: | Timing, state, auteur, temporality, temporal creativity, temporal power, untimeliness, acceleration, statecraft, Kenya |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205382 |
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