the importance of time-travel

by Keely Adler · updated 5mo ago

A memory commensurate to the complexity of the past and the whole cast of participants, a memory that includes our power, produces that forward-directed energy called hope.
from Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
Keely Adler added 5mo ago
“The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself,” Bergson wrote, “and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.” Once again, the seemingly dispiriting message here is actually a liberating one. Since every real-world choice about how to liv... See more
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Keely Adler added 5mo ago
Imagining the future is just another form of memory. It’s a kind of forward-looking nostalgia. “The history of utopias is the history of rear-view mirrors. Every utopia is a picture of the preceding age.”3 If your memory gets scrambled, your ability to envision a coherent future is severely hampered. When the past feels slippery or shifty, you lose... See more
from The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time by Aaron Z. Lewis
Keely Adler added 5mo ago
Our expectations and dreams of possible futures are, after all, deeply intertwined with our memories of the past. These memories are not self-evident but actively (and passively) constructed
from Around the Future in Eighty Worlds by Utrecht University
Keely Adler added 5mo ago
Sacasas has given me a valuable guiding question: How do we train our attention on our present and future, when so much of our life is spent ensconced in dispatches from the recent past?
from How The Internet Is Like A Dying Star by The Atlantic
Keely Adler added 5mo ago
History holds too many examples of what happens when the masses suddenly wake up to a sense of overwhelming dread
from How to De-Zombify People by Viviane Zandonadi
Keely Adler added 6mo ago
When something fits into a lucid, logical continuum, it’s generally remembered for how it (a) reinterprets the entity that influenced its creation, and (b) provides influence for whatever comes next.
from But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman
Keely Adler added 6mo ago
It’s flirting with the liminality between the present and the future. I think portals can exist as little hopping moments; I’m in the present, obviously, but I’m also experiencing future realities. How can I use portals as little keys, to bring those two into symbiosis?
from What if care is the work? by Alexis Aceves Garcia
Keely Adler added 6mo ago
we each live in a present, a space for action. I no longer see you as an arrival point, far away from us on a line, or over the side of a waterfall. You, the future, are always imminent in my undecided present. We are at the center of time, and you, reading this, are also there. In both of our moments, we have so much to lose, but also so much to g
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from Dear Future, Here’s the One Lesson I Want to Pass on to You by Jenny Odell
Keely Adler added 6mo ago

from Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit

from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

from The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time by Aaron Z. Lewis

from Around the Future in Eighty Worlds by Utrecht University

from How The Internet Is Like A Dying Star by The Atlantic

from How to De-Zombify People by Viviane Zandonadi

from But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman

from What if care is the work? by Alexis Aceves Garcia

from Dear Future, Here’s the One Lesson I Want to Pass on to You by Jenny Odell