Everywhen

Against ‘the power of now’

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  • Published 20220428
  • ISBN: 978-1-922212-71-9
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

‘Time, what is time?’
Title of the lead track on Somewhere Far Beyond by German
power-metal band Blind Guardian

THERE ARE AS many ways of thinking about time as there are cultures, but I’m going to talk about the one I know best and contrast it with the one that we’ve been drowning in ever since colonial capitalism started pouring it over us in 1788.

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Mykaela Saunders

Mykaela Saunders is an award-winning Koori and Lebanese writer, teacher and community researcher and the editor of This All Come Back Now (2022), the...

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