Very interesting, Prem, thanks. I think of time as both linear and timeless. I have an icon of this idea which I call the T-bar. The crossbar constructs tense as a line from past through present to future. The upright is timeless, the present conceived of as rooted in a continuous past. The two axes intersect in the present which is therefore inevitably both -- a movement of difference and always the same. I realise that this does not account for cyclical theories of time, but I think it says a lot about the modern world.
Keith On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Prem Chandavarkar <[email protected]>wrote: > > These are some speculations that have been bouncing around in my head > for some time, particularly with reference to architecture - the > discipline I practice - but perhaps having wider implications: Ever > since the early stages of the modernist movement (since the second > half of the 19th century) artistic innovation has been underpinned by > the idea of the avant-garde. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
