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This article advances the argument that the acceleration of practices introduced by digital




technologies also impact key concepts of social theory. Digital technologies not only give rise




to new concepts, but they also reconfigure our entire socio-political conceptual vocabulary.




In particular, this acceleration reorganises the relationship between the spatial and temporal




dimensions of political concepts. As a consequence, our spatially defined understanding of




authority, hierarchy or relation underestimates the repercussions of shifting temporalities. This




article pursues this shift from space to time and outlines how temporal relationality is gradually




impacting the representations and images we live by.