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Mark Fisher often talks about time under neoliberalism as broken/fragmented. For example: "Capital follows you when you dream. Time ceases to be linear, becomes chaotic, broken down into punctiform divisions." How does he sees 'time'? What does he mean?

Another reference: "What we in the classroom are now facing is a generation born into that ahistorical, anti-mnemonic blip culture – a generation, that is to say, for whom time has always come ready-cut into digital micro-slices"  

I wonder what does he mean. Is that a poetic stance in a way, or an ontological claim?
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Once upon a time, spatiality, and activity had a coherent and clear relation to one another. You woke up at this time, in this place, and did this sort of thing. Until really quite recently if you wanted to listen to music you had to do in a particular place, and this was normally associated with a certain time. If you took the bus to school you couldn't listen to music there, and you certainly couldn't in the classroom.

In our postmodernity, these sort of associations breakdown, you can do whatever you want, whenever you want. You can listen to music on the bus, you can slip an earphone into your ear into the classroom. And often it's not just doing one activity, whenever and wherever you want, but doing multiple ones at the same time, listening to music as you scroll, or flipping between things, flipping between tabs, flipping between apps, reading messages, going back, changing the music. And this creates a person who regards time, space and activity in the way Fisher describes in the rest of the paragraph.

>The consequence of being hooked into the entertainment matrix is twitchy, agitated interpassivity, an inability to concentrate or focus. Students' incapacity to connect current lack of focus with future failure, their inability to synthesise time into any coherent narrative, is symptomatic of more than mere demotivation. It is, in fact, eerily reminiscent of Jameson's analysis in Postmodernism and Consumer Society. Jameson observed there that Lacan's theory of schizophrenia offered a “suggestive aesthetic model” for understanding the fragmenting of subjectivity in the face of the emerging entertainment-industrial complex. “With the breakdown of the signifying chain,” Jameson summarised, “the Lacanian schizophrenic is reduced to an experience of pure material signifiers, or, in other words, a series of pure and unrelated presents in time” ... What we in the classroom are facing is a generation born into that ahistorical, anti-mnemonic blip culture – a generation, that is to say, for whom time has always come ready cut into digital micro-slices.

It's not an ontological or poetic claim, but a psychological or phenomenological one.