This dissertation seeks to establish a connection between abstract thought and material practice by simultaneously melding Kant’s transcendental philosophy of time——as outlined in the First Critique——with historical timekeeping practices and an eye to the ever-increasing importance of the equation ‘time=money.’

By attempting to locate within Kant’s transcendental philosophy resonances with empirical, capitalist time, Greenspan draws upon contemporary works of philosophy to examine different modalities of temporality in an attempt to cross the gulf between the philosophical nature of time and the empirical changes of history.

Drawing upon Deleuze and Guattari, Greenspan places the concepts of Aeonic and Chronic time in direct conversation with Kant, ultimately noting that one can look at a world-historical event that ‘occurred’ at the time of her writing the dissertation, Y2K, as an Aeonic (non)event that ruptured traditional understandings of temporality.

Edited by Peter Heft with a foreword by Wassim Z. Alsindi, Max Hampshire, and Paul Seidler——Anna Greenspan’s doctoral dissertation, Capitalism’s Transcendental Time Machine published by Miskatonic University Press.

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