Time itself, a topic to which we will return soon enough, is also quite different in such a quest. Time, it turns out, can be “ruptured,” and no historical causality and so no historical criticism is absolute. And no such observation is “ahistorical,” a criticism that is sometimes articulated when we arrive at this point. Such positions do, however, work with a much more expanded sense of time and history. In some very real sense, the position is superhistorical, with history now understood as a kind of hyperdimensional process that simply does not work, and has never worked, in just one way
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