Nicole’s Reviews > Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination > Status Update

The premise is so captivating and has such far-ranging implications that I'm struggling with the fact that Rifkin's focuses his analysis on cinematic and literary works. I understand that he's a professor of English, but what his thesis could offer to the field of trauma work is exciting at the very least.

"What does spatial copresence at a supposed moment of time mean in terms of thinking the relation between those "simultaneous" events? What does that spatial copresence have to do with the flow--processes of unfolding, becoming--within the experience of duration? What does present at the same time mean in these terms except being able to be plotted on a grid such that events occupy an "identical" temporal plane?"