ABSTRACT
Globalization’s time is made possible through the elision or devaluation of other times and the attempt to control and foreclose the future through the technological acceleration of its own temporality. But global time remains haunted by traces of the non-global and the untimely. My paper will examine both the temporal framework capitalist globalization imposes on the world and the times outside that framework that, by their untimeliness, disturb globalization’s time. I will focus my discussion on Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, a novel that not only provides us with a description of capitalist globalization’s temporal regime but also tracks the disruptive emergence of the untimely. The untimely emerges as persistent anachronistic matter and the body in pain: both remain resistant to global capitalism’s desire to annul time itself. My paper, therefore, attempts to make a case for heterotemporality against capitalist globalization’s isochrony, which seeks to put an end to time.
