Acknowledgements

This book as an experiment in interdisciplinary digital writing and as a critical intervention to the field could not have been written without the support of The Open Educational Resources (OER) initiative at the City College of New York (CCNY) which offered both financial and technical assistance throughout its production. I thank Janelle Poe, Julia Brown and Thomas Peele for their generous guidance. I am grateful for the work of my copyeditor, Tyler Olson. Thanks to his careful reading and line-editing, the clarity of my language has considerably improved.

I thank Prof. Michelle Fine for her mentorship. This project is completed during my post-doctoral fellowship under her supervision at The Public Science Project which gave me access to crucial academic sources at The Graduate Center, The City University of New York.

I am grateful for my students that attended my Political Sociology seminar in spring 2024 at The City College of New York. Lecture notes and lively discussions of that course during a heightened political period in the city constituted the germ of this book. I also would like to thank Prof. Katherine Chen, the chair of the sociology department at The City College, for her continuous guidance and support.

I thank Prof. Patricia Clough for her continued mentorship and friendship over the course of many years. Her example of politically informed theoretical work that never stopped questioning the founding assumptions of the various knowledge-practices has been a continued source of inspiration for the development of my thinking.

I am grateful for the participants of my monthly reading group (2023-) on psychoanalysis and temporality, namely Psyche(d) with Tempo, at House of Time (HoT) where I was able to share my research on historical/technical time in a friendly space. Echoing explorations of Jean-Luc Nancy in “The Inoperative Community,” sharing for the sake of sharing in the way Georges Bataille and his friends conceptualized free-expenditure of excess, the ethos of independent research embodied in House of Time has given me the momentum needed to complete this project.

I feel extremely privileged for being given a study-space by Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities at the New York Public Library. I thank staff-librarians who sustains the most hospitable scholarly environment at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. I am grateful for Miriam Gianni and Raymond Khan’s timely guidance in helping me to dig through the library’s picture collection.