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The Scent of Time
Any There disappears in a side-by-side of events, sensations and information that has no gaps. Everything is Here.
Byung-Chul Han • The Scent of Time
has propelled us to ‘escape velocity’, with the result that we have flown free of the referential sphere of the real end of history.
Byung-Chul Han • The Scent of Time
The paradox, rather, is that everything makes up the present at the same time, that everything has the opportunity, even must have the opportunity, of becoming part of the present. The present shortens and loses all duration; its time-frame diminishes more and more. At the same time, everything pushes into the present.
Byung-Chul Han • The Scent of Time
Narration requires distinction and selection.
Byung-Chul Han • The Scent of Time
Time rushes off [stürzt fort], even is in precipitous haste [überstürzt sich], in order to compensate for an essential lack of being. In this, however, it is not successful, because acceleration by itself does not produce any hold. On the contrary, it only makes the existing lack of being more pungent.
Byung-Chul Han • The Scent of Time
It is, so to speak, a gyrating meaning which deepens into being.
Byung-Chul Han • The Scent of Time
The formation of metaphor counteracts the atomization of being.
Byung-Chul Han • The Scent of Time
As soon as one looks deeper into being one recognizes that all things are interconnected, that even the least of them communicates with a whole world.
Byung-Chul Han • The Scent of Time
Only in lingering contemplation, even an ascetic restraint, do things unveil their beauty, their fragrant essence. It consists of temporal sedimentations emitting a phosphorescent glow.