the importance of time-travel
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
Aaron Z. Lewis • The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time
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we each inhabit a “non-time,” a gap between the past and the future that only exists if we can hold it open with our imagination.
Jenny Odell • Dear Future, Here’s the One Lesson I Want to Pass on to You
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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.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
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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
... See moreJenny Odell • Dear Future, Here’s the One Lesson I Want to Pass on to You
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History holds too many examples of what happens when the masses suddenly wake up to a sense of overwhelming dread
Viviane Zandonadi • How to De-Zombify People
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“Each new generation, indeed every new human being as he inserts himself between an infinite past and an infinite future, must discover and ploddingly pave it anew.”
Jenny Odell • Dear Future, Here’s the One Lesson I Want to Pass on to You
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Today, we are nostalgists as much as we are futurists. The new technology enables the simultaneous experience and enactment of events from a multiplicity of positions. Far from signalling its demise, these emergent networks facilitate the democratisation of history, illuminating the forking paths along which its grand narratives may navigate the he
... See moreLuke Turner • Metamodernist // Manifesto
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It is helpful to imagine these roadblocks as questions: How do we rediscover ourselves anew? How do we right our collective rememory? Think of rememory as an undoing, unraveling and rewriting of corporeal constitutive elements. In the changingness of rememory, could we find transcendence? Or perhaps a trace of a former history that gives us the opp
... See moreStephanie Dinkins • Afro-Now-Ism
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“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
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
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