Jasbir Puar’s maiming isn’t just a tactic but a temporal theft, hijacking bodies’ futures to freeze them in profitable limbo—neither dead nor fully alive. Unlike Arendt’s lost action or Stiegler’s captured attention, this is a theft of becoming, where empire bets on half-bodies to bankroll its eternity. The data—4,000 Gaza injuries, $400 billion Medicaid—hints at this scale, but the insight is seeing maiming as time’s weapon. Resistance, then, isn’t just healing but reclaiming time’s rhythm, a syncopated refusal to be forever half.

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