Fugitive Temporality

Fugitive temporality is the source’s frame for forms of life that escape, misbehave, or become uncountable inside dominant time. In Bayo Akomolafe: The Untimely, Bayo Akomolafe looks for fugitive spaces rather than friendliness with time.

The concept appears through music from the gaps of plantation command, Eshu entering the slave ship, sanctuary that is not a scheduled project, and the Great Dismal Swamp as a place where people escaping plantations found life worlds beyond plantation clock time.

Key Claims

• Fugitive temporality is not a polished alternative system; it is an escape route, misbehavior, or unscheduled life world.
• It is produced in relation to Colonial Temporal Discipline but is not reducible to domination.
• It asks people to notice cracks in agency, attention, justice, grief, climate crisis, and technological violence.

Connections

• The Untimely - broader concept of excess and unknown task.
• Eshu and Great Dismal Swamp - figure and place grounding the idea.
• Modern Time Discipline and Colonial Temporal Discipline - temporal orders fugitive time exceeds.
• Bayo Akomolafe - speaker developing the frame.