Timing the state

We wish to express our gratitude to the interlocutors for their considered and thoughtful commentaries on our article. They invoke new questions around the power of the state in directing action towards acceleration, performance, untimeliness, time essences, thickets and passages, and creativity. In this response piece, we develop our contention that the state in a digital era needs to be reconceptualised through timing as a form of statecraft. We will suggest first that while the state is not a coherent entity, it is in its temporality across spaces, scales, and actors that we begin to see its performative nature as auteur. Second, we address the question of untimeliness in our paper as an inherent aspect of temporal power itself. Finally, we address the provocation to expand our work on the creative uses of temporality from the margins.