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Atemporality for the Creative Artist
- This really changes the narrative, and the organized presentations of history in a way that history cannot recover from. This is the source of our gnawing discontent.
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- A new generation will arise who does not need things explained to them in this way. They will not wonder at a slogan like 'futurity now', because they will have never known anything different.
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- We are living in an atemporal network culture, and I don't think that requires a moral panic. I think it ought to be regarded as something like moving into a new town.
from Atemporality for the Creative Artist by Bruce Sterling
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- You can physically outlive the period in which explaining things in this way makes sense.
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- It's not a perfect explanation, it's a contingent explanation for contingent times.
from Atemporality for the Creative Artist by Bruce Sterling
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- The question is: now what? Given that we have atemporal organized representations of verbal structures, what can we actually do? Where is the fun part?
from Atemporality for the Creative Artist by Bruce Sterling
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- We are in a period which I think is dominated by two great cultural signifiers. An analog system that belonged to our parents, which has been shot full of holes. It is the symbol of the ruined castle. "Gothic High-Tech." The ruins of the unsustainable. And the other symbol is the favela slum, "Favela Chic," the informalized, illegalized, heavily ne... See more
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- History books are ink on paper. They are linear narratives with beginning and ends. They are stories created from archival documents and from other books. Network culture, not really into that. Network culture differs from literary culture in a great many ways. And step one is that the operating system is an unquestioned given. The first thing you ... See more
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- What's needed here is like a kind of atemporality that's like agnosticism. Just a calm, pragmatic, serene skepticism about the historical narratives.
from Atemporality for the Creative Artist by Bruce Sterling
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