[-empyre-] time again

[Sean Cubitt <seanc@waikato.ac.nz>]

One thing I wanted to murmur about here is time: the proliferation of 
different times . There's the time of sending, the time of reading 
and the time of replying on a list. There's the time of designing, 
updating, revising and uploading pages and sites. Norie Neumark, 
speaking here in Hamilton a few days back, talked about slowing down 
interaction time, encouraging a savouring of the time of the work. 
There are times of content too, futures, nostalgias, erasures and 
rememorations, memories of times you never lived through.

Virilio is probably right in a certain sense to say we live not at 
the end of history but at the end of geography; except that that 'we' 
speaks of those who do live 'after' geography, not the poor bastards 
who are condemned to live in it. Like probably everyone on this list, 
I can move cheerfully across most borders: John Howard is far from 
alone in making that a far more difficult and Real task for others. 
(I've been to reality - you wouldn't like it there)

Time, history, remains. More than that, it has become a raw material 
for making.

s


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