January 2010
54 posts
uncertaintimes:
In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well assimilated and a lot of work in thermodynamics going on, man was looked on as a heat engine, about 40 per cent efficient. Now in the twentieth century, with nuclear and subatomic physics a going thing, man had become something...
piano creep beat.
“Take the word “event”: for myself I would limit it, and imprison it...”
– Fernand Braudel
zasu:
“What is time? Swiss manufacture it. French hoard it. Italians squander it. Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Do you know what I say? I say time is a crook.”
~Peter Lorre as Julius O’Hara in Beat the Devil
“In human life, of course, the arrow of time is very fundamental. I think that in...”
– Getting to know Ilya Prigogine
“There are times when reality becomes too complex for Oral Communication. But...”
– Godard, quoted by Angela Carter (via ajourneyroundmyskull)
“One of the basic situationist practices is the dérive [literally: “drifting”], a...”
– Guy-Ernest Debord, Theory of the Dérive (via somethingchanged) (via electronicalrattlebag) (via wildcat2030)
Deleuze o'Clock
pareidoliac:
We should note that organic time, the synthesis of habit producing the living present, is only the “foundation” of time. Deleuze’s full treatment of time in Difference and Repetition posits a second synthesis of memory producing the pure past as the “ground” of time, while the third synthesis, producing the future as eternal return of difference, we might say unfounds and ungrounds...
