Time

I am still working on my treatise on decomposition, infinity, and the diversion of the self. I am about to finish the chapter on amputated infinity and I do believe that I am on the verge of setting forth the most complete and insightful classification of the forms of infinity to date. I have already visualized an outline for determining the intuition of infinity and a robustly argue the concepts of negative infinity, increased infinity, and stable infinity. (13)
Matei Visniec.
How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients (and Other Plays).

Like Angela Carter or Jorge Luis Borges before him, Visniec plunges us into the absurdity of classifying of things, especially things as mutable as time and infinity.

Classifying time is always about power.

The imperial control of time is something Indigenous and other racialized persons are often especially aware of: pre-settler ‘traditional’ time vs contemporary ‘modern’ time.

In Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination, Mark Rifkin observes:

Native peoples remain oriented in relation to collective experiences of peoplehood, to particular territories (whether or not such places are legally recognized us reservations or given official trust status), to the ongoing history of their inhabitants in those spaces, enter the histories of displacement from them.

Such orientations open up different worlds and those that plant dominant settler orderings, articulations, and reckonings of time. Developing such notions of temporal orientation and multiplicity opens the potential for conceptualizing native continuity and change in ways that move beyond the modern/traditional binary. (5)

With AnthrApology we seek to explore emancipatory futurisms, some of them retroactive, that imagine time beyond capture, subjection, and supremacies of all kinds.

We seek to escape that most frustrating of temporalities and tenses: the “future fucked”.

Will we hear the call of the American Bison / the true spirit Buffalo
cosmic jazz from woods and plain
will we hear and feel the rumble, cough, roar and grunt, bleats and bellows of our bison sisters and brothers
come back from terror
like so many of us
--free--
will we hear them and know them to be true?

Yes we will / and we will dig it.

We will hear all these things and more
jazz’s ever agitatin’ ecstatic score:
fusion, acid jazz, groove, hard bop, hip hop, bebop, swing, Afro-Cuban, Dixieland, rap, blues, jump blues, West coast, samba jazz, and ska
Astral Cool and Ancestral Song

We will hear that fervent ever-giving music and we dig it.

(8.5 BuffalOHMYGOD! Ted Joans’ descendent channelling Joans’ presence as part of an ancestral spirit retrieval journey, Buffalo, NY, 2638)