ABSTRACT
This chapter expands on the view of Modern Greece as a ‘crypto-colonial’ space. It offers an alternative reading of the so-called ‘Greek-crisis’, using the lens of chronocracy as developed in the introduction to this volume. The chapter argues that chronocracy produces an anticipatory nostalgia: namely, a future-oriented affective state of longing for what has already been accomplished and at once yet to be achieved. It shows how anticipatory nostalgia is distributed between relational, material and temporal ecologies. Nomadic temporal subjectivities in Greece emerge as heterogeneous ensembles of events, variable intensive affects and durable colonial debris. Experiences of economic, political and cultural dependence and a persistent, unremitting orientalism that folds itself into the fabric of time produce the Greek subject as an exceptionality. The multiple orientalist visions of the self form predictable and unpredictable connections with various fragments of time in a nomadic fashion.
