Many of the chapters in this book engage with issues oftime and temporality, either explicitly orindirectly. The linear or progressive time impliedby the neologism ‘curatopia’ can and should beproductively critiqued, not least in terms thatrecognise the infolded and paradoxical nature of thepresent – or ‘presence’ – in everyday life. What weunderstand phenomenologically, through immediateperception, may return later to haunt us and theobjects around us as a folding-over of time. Thecurator deciding what to collect for the future, howto interpret it in the present and what it meant inits originary past, is also curating time – anintractable but dynamic project.