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This contribution deals with normative conceptions of synchronization in philosophy and media theory, particularly in selected writings from Pamela Lee, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and Paul Virilio. The text proposes Pamela Lee’s (2004) “chronophobia,” a fear of the temporal, as an analytical category based on Sigmund Freud’s reflection of paranoia to contest the ideological foundations of synchronization, thereby transforming current understanding of subjectivity, time, and digital cultures. What understanding of time and history can we gain by analyzing synchronization as a projection of a unity of body and voice, past and present, and self and environment, rather than as a digital tool?

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DESYNCHRONIZING: Environment, Sexuality, and Paranoia—Challenging the Contemporaneity of the Normative Concept of Synchronization

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  • Ana Hoffner

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This contribution deals with normative conceptions of synchronization in philosophy and media theory, particularly in selected writings from Pamela Lee, Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, and Paul Virilio. The text proposes Pamela Lee’s (2004) “chronophobia,” a fear of the temporal, as an analytical category based on Sigmund Freud’s reflection of paranoia to contest the ideological foundations of synchronization, thereby transforming current understanding of subjectivity, time, and digital cultures. What understanding of time and history can we gain by analyzing synchronization as a projection of a unity of body and voice, past and present, and self and environment, rather than as a digital tool?