Relationship with Time
Keely Adler and
Relationship with Time
Keely Adler and
Carnival time is cyclical, regenerative, and collective. Hierarchies collapse; fools become kings, the sacred is mocked, and the grotesque body — open, excessive, laughing — takes center stage. François Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel embodied this mode: giants born through grotesque parodies of childbirth, endless feasts and banquets, obscene
... See moreThe internet embodies this carnival temporality with startling clarity:
• Cyclical bursts : meme cycles, outrage waves, and news frenzies erupt, fade, and return with variation.
• Inversions : anonymous users become viral, while experts, CEOs, and politicians are mocked, parodied, or dethroned.
• Acceleration & simultaneity : the timeline collapses
... See moregoing quite a bit faster when you’re going slowly is a really big gain. Going very fast when you’re already going fast is the action of a dickhead.
Charles Eisenstein • 5 highlights
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