Spectral forces, time, and excess in Southern Chile

This chapter sheds light on how embracing the world multiple requires careful ethnographic exploration of socio-material entanglements expressing “more than one” temporalities. In order to do so, and as a heuristic to ethnographically attend to the temporal socio-material singularities emerging within environments strongly affected by state terrorism, I mobilize a kind of politics I term “the politics of when.” By so doing, and through an ethnographic exploration on the excess that emerges from the material inclination of humans and nonhumans to continue to co-exist and enhance themselves, the chapter demonstrates how different processes of worlding are predicated upon spectral socio-material forces that do not share a pre-established temporal dimension that allows for the secular co-existence of different practical achievements.