Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sofsky, Wolfgang

Titel

Prisoner’s Time

Ist Teil von

• The Order of Terror, 2013, p.82-94

Ort / Verlag

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Control over social time is only one element of the total overpowering of the human being. Absolute power does not merely seek to control the external time of bodies, their movements, postures, and positions. It aspires to remold or eradicate any form of individual time: the time for action, for the spirit, for the soul. Just as it varies social time, accelerating and retarding it in order to cage a human being in an eternal present, it obtrudes into identity, penetrating one’s mental and practical relation to oneself. It permeates the biographical time of the individual; it wipes out memory;