Datta, Ayona;
(2025)
Distant time: A response.
Dialogues in Human Geography
(In press).
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Abstract
This response appreciates the commentators for engaging so generously with the concept of distant time. Each of these commentaries address different aspects of the paper and also raise very important questions about the wider applicability of distant time across spaces, technologies, territories and people. I will first start with Rose’s critique of the concept as an authorial gesture and therefore suggest a more expansive idea of technology that is ubiquitous in both colonial Shimla and its proposed smart future (Rose 2024). Seen this way, the notion of distant time is also a topological intervention on the grid (Sabhlok 2024) producing an affective technology of governance (Ghertner 2024) that recalibrates the parameters of temporal justice (Addie 2024). Finally I will chart out a framework of temporal tactics and techniques (Kitchin 2024) that unpack further the notion of distant time in the postcolony.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Distant time: A response |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://journals.sagepub.com/home/dhg |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Distant time, topology, temporal tactics and techniques, smart cities, technologies |
| 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/10209885 |
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