
This preprint introduces the concept of Temporal Apartheid to describe how academic publishing architectures structurally exclude high velocity knowledge production by enforcing multi year validation cycles. This paper is published immediately as a public preprint in order to refuse temporal compliance with multi year journal validation cycles. It introduces the concept of Temporal Apartheid to describe how academic publishing architectures structurally exclude high velocity knowledge production by enforcing bureaucratic delay disguised as rigour. Using a top tier management journal pipeline as a case example, it argues that the twenty four month peer review cycle functions as an obsolescence machine, imposing Institutional Clinical Debt on authors while preserving institutional authority through temporal scarcity. Three figures visualise the publication pipeline, the velocity mismatch between generative AI development and academic publishing, and the relative time to public availability. The paper closes with a Turing theory corollary, treating delay as an institutional safety protocol designed to let unpredictable intellectual momentum decay.
Temporal Apartheid, Academic publishing, Peer review, Institutional Clinical Debt, Equilibrium Ledger, Vertical time, Horizontal time, Knowledge velocity, Generative AI, Management journals
Temporal Apartheid, Academic publishing, Peer review, Institutional Clinical Debt, Equilibrium Ledger, Vertical time, Horizontal time, Knowledge velocity, Generative AI, Management journals
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