Planktons in the Sea: A Few Questions Regarding the Qualities of Time - Journal #27 September 2011 - e-flux
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Saved by Kalyani Tupkary
Planktons in the Sea: A Few Questions Regarding the Qualities of Time - Journal #27 September 2011 - e-flux
Saved by Kalyani Tupkary
While tempo and timing are crucial and contextually unique in living processes, the tempo and timing of clock-time are pre-set by the designer. Here, variation in tempo and timing would mean a malfunction of the clock.
As a concept, time makes sense. We think we understand it. But in practice, it becomes unclear, and the minutes, hours, and days often blend together. It’s like we don’t have any internal clock or sense of time. We have a clockless mind. We only seem to understand two states: the present (“now”), and some vague version of all future time (“not now”
... See morenavigating their own temporal topographies, rushing to meet some unseen demand.
Strange as it sounds to call a flat, monochromatic painting a “time-based medium,” there was actually something to find out in each one—or rather, between me and each one—and the longer time I spent, the more I found out.