Capitalism, Landnahme and Social Time Regimes: An Outline

Abstract

This paper addresses the influence of capitalist Landnahme on the modification of social time regimes. The paper’s main thesis is that time is distributed extremely unequally in processes of social acceleration. A regime of discontinuous time deprives part of the subordinates of material and cultural resources, which are essential for rational actions in markets. Moreover, different forms of exploitation of time resources divide the subalterns. As a result, developed capitalist metropolises are defined by what is best described as stable instability.