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Imagined simultaneity
ConceptPeople can imagine distant lives and events as unfolding alongside their own in shared time.
Explanation or usage
A narrative or news report can place unrelated events within a common calendar. This arrangement can make a wider social world conceivable without personal acquaintance among its participants. It does not prove that those people act identically or share a single interpretation.
Common misunderstandings
Imagining events in shared time requires everyone to act or think alike.
In Imagined communities
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This concept provides a lens for discussing how people imagine a community of strangers sharing a common time. Anderson’s book discusses temporal frameworks and the role of print forms in imagining communities.