Life at the Edge

Punctuated Time and Time Poverty

Authors

  • Megan Burke Sonoma State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5206/fpq/2023.2.16600

Keywords:

temporality, time poverty, homelessness, sleep

Abstract

This paper considers the temporal experience constituted by prohibitions against sleep that target individuals who are unhoused and sleep outside. More specifically, drawing on Cressida Heyes’s account of sleep and anaesthetic time in Anaesthetics of Existence, this paper develops a preliminary account of punctuated time as a form of time poverty that is acute for those who must sleep outside. It is argued that such prohibitions against sleep work to anchor an individual in a totalizing presence, thereby instituting a temporal annihilation of subjectivity. Accordingly, this paper suggests that the particular experience of punctuated time endured by individuals who are unhoused can be understood as a violent interruption of subjectivity that pushes them to the edge of lived time.

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Author Biography

Megan Burke, Sonoma State University

MEGAN BURKE (they/them/theirs) is associate professor of philosophy at Sonoma State University. They work primarily in feminist philosophy, critical phenomenology, and trans philosophy, and are the author of When Time Warps: The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence (University of Minnesota Press, 2019).

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Published

2023-06-16

How to Cite

Burke, Megan. 2023. “Life at the Edge: Punctuated Time and Time Poverty”. Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 9 (2). https://doi.org/10.5206/fpq/2023.2.16600.

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 2 (2023)

Section

Symposium, peer-reviewed

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Copyright (c) 2023 Megan Burke

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