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The article reconfigures the dialectic of periodicity in modernism, dispersing what was once assumed to be its obsessive preoccupation with time by confronting it with the presence and pressures of other spaces. According to the author, the theory of relativity by Albert Einstein contrived a major paradigm shift in theorizing the relationship between time and space, one that systematized what some in the arts and philosophy of modernism were already beginning to articulate early in the century. She stresses that examining the spatial politics of the conventional periodization of modernism fosters a move from singularities to pluralities of space and time, from exclusivist formulations of modernity and modernism to ones based in global linkages.