A Beginner's Guide To Slowing Down Time
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Escape chronos through perception. Found myself getting stressed over a tight schedule (here by 11am! here by 2pm! here by 7pm!). Time can easily keep you in your head, in a realm of abstractions. But aesthetic observation puts you back in the body. It’s a frame shifter. As long as you have a decent plan, you can trust it and get out of your head.
Travel appears to offer an enlargement of time.
"There are two ways to make the world more mesmerizing: to seek out new and increasingly intense experiences, or to loosen the filters that make ordinary experience “ordinary”. You can go skydiving, or you can meditate for long enough that walking feels like skydiving. Either way, I think what we’re seeking is an escape back into what we used to be... See more
Planktons in the Sea: A Few Questions Regarding the Qualities of Time - Journal #27 September 2011 - e-flux
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