Read the passage intently fill in each blank: (3)

In the given passage , some words have been deleted . Read the passage intently and choose the most appropriate option to fill in each blank:
Postcolonial infrastructures often inhabit a schizochronic condition – a simultaneity of obsolescence and futurity. Flyovers half- finished, railway station calcified mid-renovation, and electric grid oscillating between blackout and surplus do not signify simple malfunction. Rather, they manifest a (1)_____________ temporality in which the present is neither a continuity of the past nor a stable projection of the future. These infrastructures function not as inert utilities but as affective  indexes of temporal rupture. Modernity, Once telegraphed through asphalt and concrete, now flickers within these arrested developments -gestures of progress suspended in bureaucratic amber. Here, functionality is beside, now flickers within these arrested developments – gestures of progress suspended in bureaucratic amber. Here, functionality is beside the Point. What matters is the performative (2)________ of development: roads that signify mobility even when impassable, metros that symbolize futurity even when immobile. In this schema, infrastructure ceases to be an engineering problem and becomes a narrative technology – a  spatial discourse that(3)________ the nation – state ‘s promises into sedimented form. Bridges – to be and always – rebuilding airports constitute. not failure, but continuity :  the continuity: the continual renewal of unfinished intention. Such spatial artifacts require a recalibrated hermeneutics. To read them Iterally is to miss theirs symbolic resopance/ Their disrepair is not decay nut (4)__________ : a visual vocabulary of state temporality, in which incompletion is the political idiom of continuity. This is the temporal grammar of  anticipation without arrival. Thus, the postcolonial built environment articulates not stasis, but (5)________ – a condition where motion exists without direction, and progress is simulated through perpetual incompletion.
What should come in the place of blank number (3)?

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