ABSTRACT
This chapter takes seriously Fanon's idea that the problem to be considered here is one of time'. In conversation with Fanon and Hartman, we show the ways time and temporality inflects the imagination and engagement with time and vulnerability in international relations and world politics. Fanon insists every human problem must be considered from the standpoint of time. In different corners of the world, finance capital is pushing for unprecedented domination, leaving people vulnerable with its multiplicities of speculation. While Fanon asserts time is at the heart of social transformation and the upheaval of race relations, rethinking time and understanding temporality in a way that it is not immediately captured by colonial discourses and dialectical, phenomenological, and humanist categories remains elusive. Notions of temporality in global structures, including capital, and modernity's institutions figured as a movement between dialectical terms and accompanying modes of existence, imagine and write the colonized and African as unthought and non-existent.
