The untimely

Abstract

This brief commentary on “The state as auteur: Timing digitisation in Africa's Silicon Savannah” emphasizes the ways in which time seems to jettison its own timing, where all manifestations of time, whether endurance, rupture, and return, confront unanticipated and confounding rhythms that seem to emanate from within as much as from complicated exteriors. While introductions of innovations on the part of states require thoughtful multifaceted considerations of ramifications both known and unknown, there is yet always a matter of time for which no entity is ever prepared, as time comes either too early or too late.