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Notes: Russell West-Pavlov (2013) Temporalities
E-book: https://b-ok.cc/book/2491174/39c8be I also have the tangible book from HOPP library p. 2 Larkin’s poem links two salient points: the self-evidence oftime, manifest in the blank incomprehension aroused by thissimplest of questions; and an only vaguely articulated threatwhich appears to respond to the question. p. 5 Following Buttler's example for gender, this book will suggest… Continue reading Notes: Russell West-Pavlov (2013) Temporalities
Marilyn Arsem
. Marilyn Arsem: 100 Ways to Consider Time description of actions in '100 ways to consider time' "The performance art of Marylin Arsem" MFA PUBLICATIONSeBook Edition for Apple devices The Performance Art of Marilyn ArsemEdited by Liz Munsell, Edward Saywell. Artist's website: http://marilynarsem.net . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gocIPcLhrzg 2:05 min. min. min.: Arsem talks about how she… Continue reading Marilyn Arsem
Proof of love
. I, recently, watched The end of the affair (1999) again (after ten years or so). Oh, it is beautiful when people can act... when they are able to fill up the screen with silence... and their silence is proof of their untold fears and desires. As I was watching the movie, I kept thinking:… Continue reading Proof of love
tempocorporeal malfunctions
. I constantly look at the clock and I am constantly late. . . In his 2014 article for Performance Research, scholar Branislav Jakovljević dubs phenomena of untimeliness, belatedness, hyperactivity or slowness as "temporal maladjustments". They result from abstract time's (Jakovljević derives this term from modern clock time) incomplete conquest of "an individual’s inner experience… Continue reading tempocorporeal malfunctions
tick-tack
. In Greek language a clock ticks in a regular tick-tack tick-tack tick-tack and a heart also sounds like tick-tack tick-tack . However, in a Greek folk song the anonymous composer writes (translated freely into English by me) "Tick tick ticki-ticki-tack goes my heart once I see you passing by" . Several conclusions can be… Continue reading tick-tack
Notes: Alessandro Arienzo, Introduction and Time out of joint
p. 29-30 Aristotle: time and change are defined by each other. They are not identical. ...in order to measure time it is necessary to have a unit of measure and this unit can only be found= in the uniform, perfect, and circular motion of stars and celestial bodies. The perception of before and after, thus… Continue reading Notes: Alessandro Arienzo, Introduction and Time out of joint
Time is the motion of desire
I still remember this session with Mariella Greil where I was trying to explain how I feel about my research. I described two poles: researching into the notion of time created in my imagination a white laboratory-like space, sterile, silent, tense in expectation of the results, sickly, ordered, disciplined. It was already back then that… Continue reading Time is the motion of desire
Notes: Sherry Turkle (2007) Evocative objects: things we think with.
p. 307-309 "Objects help us make our minds" idea of bricolage by Levi-StraussJean Piaget: objects help us think about such things as number, space, time, causality, and Piaget reminds us that our learning is situated, concrete, and personal.Object play—for adults as well as children—engages the heart as well as the mind; objects infuse learning with… Continue reading Notes: Sherry Turkle (2007) Evocative objects: things we think with.
Bibliography
. Bergson, H. (1950) Time and free will: an essay on the immediate data of consciousness, 6th edition. Translated by F. L. Pogson. London: George Allen & Unwin. Bluedorn, A.C. (2002) The human organization of time: temporal realities and experience. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Clark, A. (2003) Natural-born cyborgs: minds, technologies, and the future of… Continue reading Bibliography