Silent Order: the Temporal Turn in Critical International Relations

Hom, Andrew R.

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“…Hence, the circulation of affect is transient because the interplay of place and bodies limits the time of practices. However, time is not only an element of affect due to the ephemerality of practices but time also provides a standard for orientation, direction, and meaning (Guillaume and Huysmans, 2019;Hom, 2018). This, what can be called 'rhythm' (Solomon, 2019;Solomon and Steele, 2017;Wetherell, 2012) in reference to Henri Lefebvre's particularly apt terminology when writing about dance, implies that to affect others, practices have to be temporarily situated within a specific socio-political and cultural context (Hutchison, 2019: 290).…”

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Affect, practice, and change: Dancing world politics at the Congress of Vienna

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2020

Cooperation and Conflict

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How do practices change? To approach this in practice theory (PT) is a widely debated question. This article brings PT in conversation with the study of emotions in International Relations by considering the role of affect in practice changes. For it is affect that permeates the placiotemporal and bodily constellations during practice performances, continuously provoking changes in and through practices. In initiating this conversation, this article adds to current PT literature by arguing that world political transformations not only find their origin in external conditions, identified as such through individual reflection, but also in affective dynamics of the everyday. To elaborate this more theoretical argument, this article evolves against the empirical backdrop of dancing as an everyday international practice at the Congress of Vienna (1814–1815). Affect that permeated dances in Vienna not only substantiated changes in this practice but, with the waltz replacing the minuet as the preferred dance among international political decision-makers, also changes through it occurred. While the minuet embodied collective sentiments of a transboundary European elite, the waltz helped to further national imaginations of world politics.

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Affect, practice, and change: Dancing world politics at the Congress of Vienna

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“…Recent moves within the discipline of international relations (IR) have sought to emphasize the role of temporality and time within global and international politics (Agathanagelou and Killian, 2016;Berenskoetter, 2011;Debrix, 2015;Fisher, 2013;Hom, 2010Hom, , 2016Hom, , 2018aHom, , 2018bHutchings, 2008;Lundborg, 2012Lundborg, , 2015McIntosh, 2015;Solomon, 2014;Stevens, 2016;Stockdale, 2016;Wheeler, 2017). In the past few years, these efforts have grown significantly, primarily as an attempt to theorize an ontological assumption that has remained largely unexamined.…”

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The Trump administration’s politics of time: The temporal dynamics that enable Trump’s interests to determine American foreign policy

McIntosh

2020

Time & Society

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Scholars and political observers have noted how the rate of significant events and crises in the Trump administration appear to be accelerating at an unmanageable and irresistible pace, making it difficult to respond to these actions as they happen. This paper uses the lens of the present as a frame for exploring the temporal assumptions and “timing mechanisms” at work in the contemporary moment within American politics, particularly within US foreign and security policy. The paper identifies and explores three elements of this particular present that combine to enable the implementation of Trump administration policy goals. These three areas include the production of an indefinite present, temporal othering, and the rapid tempo of political activity. Focusing on the temporal dynamics of the political present during the Trump administration reveals some of the ways in which domestic and/or foreign acquiescence is realized despite their rejection of recent US foreign policy doctrine. The paper concludes with a reflection on likely implications this will have on the conduct of American foreign policy, ultimately arguing that it is likely to become increasingly unpredictable and even more violent, dangerously exacerbating already existing inequalities, marginalizations, and erasures of difference.

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“…Far from playing out one against the other, this paper tries to investigate how Foucault’s work can be helpful and inspiring in finding and further developing concepts employed as analytical tools to investigate the historical emergence and transformation of powerful social time-regimes. Here, power is not so much understood as being anchored in a particular form, design or object of time, but rather is fundamentally connected to practices of temporalization and timing, conceived in the immanence of social relations of knowledge–power (Foucault, 1995, see also Elias, 1992; Hom, 2018). Therefore, not only could Foucault scholars profit from a dialogue with pluri-temporal perspectives emergent from the field of critical time studies, but these also could gain central insights by making use of Foucauldian vocabularies of power (see for example Odih, 1999).…”

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Times of power, knowledge and critique in the work of Foucault

Portschy

2020

Time & Society

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While Michel Foucault is commonly considered as a thinker with a primary interest in space and spatiality, his use of temporal categories, tropes and metaphors has until recently been only partially reconstructed. Working through different phases of his writings and lectures, this paper argues that Foucault opened a complex and interesting – yet to be acknowledged – analytical perspective on historically dominant, but fundamentally contested forms of social time-regimes, which accounts especially for contingent ruptures, silent continuities and the power-structured contexts of their emergence. Elucidating conceptual tools designed towards the analysis of rationalities and practises of temporal government and approaching social time regimes along the axes of power, knowledge and subjectivity, the aim of this paper is twofold: on the one side, it tries to further contribute to a ‘temporal turn’ in Foucault studies; on the other, it attempts to develop a Foucauldian vocabulary of temporal analysis as an alternative or supplement to established approaches in the field of critical social time studies.

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Silent Order: the Temporal Turn in Critical International Relations

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Cited by 46 publications

References 19 publications

Affect, practice, and change: Dancing world politics at the Congress of Vienna

Affect, practice, and change: Dancing world politics at the Congress of Vienna

The Trump administration’s politics of time: The temporal dynamics that enable Trump’s interests to determine American foreign policy

Times of power, knowledge and critique in the work of Foucault

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