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Escape Velocities and Stillness
“Notes Towards a Minor Art Practice” Simon O’Sullivan http://drainmag.com Vol 2.2. Syncretism (2005) It is then as if there must be two moments, or movements, to a minor practice: one of dissent (either a strategic withdrawal as a form of … Continue reading
Time Trap Brain
Dan Lloyd. Radiant Cool: A Novel Theory of Consciousness. 312-313. Temporality appears to us from within […] The continuous monotonic flux implies something about conscious brains over time. […] Nor can a brain, as an organ of temporality, return to … Continue reading
Narrativity and the Open
Elsewhere I have argued that narrativity is always at hand whether it is the the possibility of weaving a narrative or embroidering narration — as a species humans are in touch with how objects yield events and events become reified; … Continue reading
Marking Time Passing
One line from Brian Fawcett Permanent Relationships dewwet morning What is amazing here is the simplicity of the means (rearranging the inter-word spacing) and the richness of the suggestiveness thus generated. “Dewwet” evokes that moment where the droplets have begun … Continue reading
Time’s Mechanics
Brian Eno. Times shown are British Standard Time; Calculations are made on the assumption that the Gregorian Calendar will remain in use. The Gregorian Calendar errs by one day in two thousand years, thus posing a dilemma for performers of … Continue reading
Dream Waiting
24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary. On systemic restrictions on day dreaming and reverie. One of the forms of disempowerment within 24/7 environments is the incapacitation of daydream or of any mode of absent-minded introspection … Continue reading
Smooth Striations
Almost like a reminder of the room as time-machine in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency [and for this reader: the metaphor of the book in hand as time-machine], the potential of language as a transportation device is referenced by Marie-Laure … Continue reading
Speculations Chronotopological
We are infected. “retrochronal semiovirus, in which a time further in the future than the one in which we exist and choose infects the host present, introducing itself in simulacra, until it destroys all the original chronotocytes of the host … Continue reading
Time Matters
There is a marvellous gem of elucidation in To Tell a Story: Narrative Theory and Practice. Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar. February 4, 1972. It is Stanley Fish’s reading of a sermon by Lancelot Andrewes. It is difficult … Continue reading
Botany Lesson
Richelle Kosar has her narrator who displays a penchant for descriptions of fragrance describe one particular morning. The next morning I walked in the white garden, sipping a cup of coffee. The sunlight was bright […] Light was sparkling on … Continue reading