Time-as-affect in neoliberal academy: theorizing chronopolitics as affective milieus in higher education
本文提出时间、情感与政治相互纠缠，将时间政治学概念化为高等教育中的情感环境，分析时间话语与实践如何被身体化和情感化，并探讨通过扰乱情感环境来改变学术界的习惯。
This paper theorizes time, affect, and politics as entangled by foregrounding the notion of chronopolitics as affective milieus in higher education. In doing so, the analysis emphasizes how time discourses and practices are embodied and affective, sometimes becoming sedimented, while other times functioning as a means of disruption. The paper draws on existing studies in neoliberal academia to argue that changing academics’ affective habits created by dominant time discourses and practices requires the disruption of affective milieus in which time is channeled, routed and molded. The paper theorizes the potential of affect to be deployed as a means of disrupting sedimented social and political formations, practices and patterns of time and temporality in higher education and cultivating new affective habits in academia. The paper suggests that understanding time-as-affect in higher education makes an important contribution to existing research and theorizing on how academics are affected by time and temporality norms.