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“Killing Time” examines the temporal conditions of war. Visiting daily life of frontline infantry soldiers during the Vietnam War, the chapter describes how time is imagined, where what the chapter calls “ordinary time” gets reconfigured in a type of desperate boredom, a disfigured temporality primed for atrocity. In contrast, a medieval conception of graced nature where time participates in eternity is offered.
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Tran, J. (2016). Killing Time. In: Kim, N., Joh, W. (eds) Critical Theology against US Militarism in Asia. New Approaches to Religion and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48013-2_6
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