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Time again for more space
From Elements of Japanese Design by Boyé Lafayette De Mente on “MA Mixing Space and Time” Ma means space as well as time and refers to the space of time between events. It is space that is sensually as well … Continue reading
White on time in the novel
Edmund White The Burning Library “Southern Belles Lettres: Cormac McCarthy” Time as a resource… Since fiction, like music, is primarily a temporal art, any device that inflects the reader’s perception of time becomes crucial, not just as a hook for … Continue reading
Ghost Days Spectral Hours
Jill Walker Rettberg. Blogging To really understand blogs, you need to read them over time. Following a blog is like getting to know someone, or like watching a television series. […] A blog consists of more than words and images. … Continue reading
Spectral Hours Ghost Days
Jill Walker Rettberg. Blogging To really understand blogs, you need to read them over time. Following a blog is like getting to know someone, or like watching a television series. […] A blog consists of more than words and images. … Continue reading
less-slower-worse
At first I was taken by this tack to the lifestyle of rush. Then I read more slowly and realized that what is proposed is less about “taking time” and more about “controlling rhythm”. Try to read this not as … Continue reading
Positions
A character created by Julia Kristeva in The Samurai translated by Barbara Bray takes a look at some fascinating people: Olga put the camera down and looked at them affectionately. These feverish intellectuals were infectious. They were restless. Accelerated particles. … Continue reading
Boom!
A commonplace blog is like the tape recorders described in The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs. Here are some excerpts spliced into a new ordering: A tape recorder is an externalized section of the human nervous system. You … Continue reading
Impermanence
It is worth sometimes to revisit the passages copied out for placement in a gathering of commonplaces. For example this snippet from the C.K. Scott Moncrieff translation of Cities of the Plain “The Heart’s Intermissions” seems a tad melancholic: The … Continue reading
Time Gate
Todd May in Gilles Deleuze: an introduction has a passage that recalls for me Benjamin’s invocation of the jetztzeit: If we think temporally with Bergson, the world is always more than it seems, always fraught with differences that can actualize … Continue reading
Driftweed
Phyllis Webb in Sunday Water: Thirteen Anti Ghazals invites the reader to Hear the atoms ambling, the genes a-tick in grandfather’s clock, in the old bones of beach. driftweed is perhaps what the beach washes up but wave upon rushing … Continue reading