ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to suggest that one way of describing the impact of the 22 July terrorist attacks is that it shattered the temporal fabric of Norwegian society by effectively breaking up the social and historical web that connects past, present, and future. In the attempts to “mend” the social and historical time shattered by the mass murder, other lifetimes are mobilized, which might be “out of sync” with the times that the governmental and non-governmental actors are addressing. The chapter also aims to explore the discussion of timelines to look at another, very different attempt at reconstituting the fabric of time shattered by the events of 22 July: by shifting them into a context of memory and heritage. A more synchronized timeline seems to have a far greater explanatory value than those timelines that only document events connected to a specific aim, like getting a helicopter in the air.
