Abstract:
The art of diplomacy, it is often said, is in timing. But we’ve known since Einstein that time itself is relative. Contracted by trauma, stretched by memory, assembled by the conveyor belt, spliced by cinema and Instagrammed by smartphones, time can be experienced in incremental divisions or as an oceanic universality, depending on, well, the time and the place. Since the late nineteenth century we’ve understood time to precipitate events, experience and history in erratic and unpredictable ways.
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