Abstract
In this paper the influence of capitalist Landnahme on the modification of social time régimes will be discussed. The paper's main thesis is that time is distributed extremely unequally in processes of social acceleration. A régime of discontinuous time deprives part of the subordinates of material and cultural resources which are essential for rational actions in markets. Moreover, different forms of exploitation of time resources divide the subalterns. As a result, developed capitalist metropolises are defined by what is best described as stable instability.
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