May 8, 2013
"The ideas that play the largest part in shaping our experience of the world and of ourselves are so deeply woven into the act of perception itself that we rarely if ever notice them until we run face first into their limits."

— John Michael Greer at The Archdruid Report. The Shape of Time

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March 20, 2013
Black Time

Keguro Macharia writes brilliantly. This post delighted me.

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February 22, 2013
"The physical world is not in itself a linear chain of causes and effects: it is a broad unfolding of densely interwoven processes from which particular chains of causes and effects are picked out, according to our interests."

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Raymond Tallis at iai. Time’s arrow

An exclusive excerpt from Raymond Tallis’ forthcoming book, inspired by his appearance in the 2012 IAI debate ‘Time’s Arrow’.

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January 9, 2013
"In the turbulent times ahead our familiar ways of acting, thinking, and being will no longer make sense. We won’t know what is happening, what it all means, and, sometimes, even what is real. Some people have entered that time already."

— Charles Eisenstein at Reality Sandwich. 2013: The Space Between Stories

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December 4, 2012
"If you believe in an alternative that would involve genuine provision for need, it is impossible to turn off the desire to make that a reality in the present, against those who would callously and knowingly permit harm to occur in the name of future profit."

— Nina Power in Overland Literary Journal. THE PESSIMISM OF TIME: The paradoxes facing the Left

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September 24, 2012
"Take a moment out of the beautiful fall day to mourn the passing of the biosphere. It seems to have barely registered on the global hive mind that the Arctic sea ice melted this year to an extent never seen before. In a matter of years, not decades, there will be no ice in the Arctic in summer. A world without a North Pole. A biosphere that no longer plays out according to its own rhythm and time but has become a by-product of the capitalist profit/loss cycle."

— Nick Mirzoeff at Occupy 2012. The Extinction of Natural Time

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September 22, 2012
"I sometimes think that the artist who painted that scene meant it as a confession to the future. In a similar way, I imagine The Last Pictures as a cave painting for the distant future. On one hand, the conceit of The Last Pictures is that it tells a story about what happened to the humans. But at the same time, I think images detached from their historical and cultural contexts are literally meaningless."

— Trever Paglen interviewed by Paul Schmelzer in Eyeteeth: Incisive Ideas. Cave Painting from the 21st Century: Trevor Paglen on The Last Pictures

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June 19, 2012
"If a ruined physical space is a memento mori, abandoned digital space is more like a time capsule: a place in which the future has simply never happened."

— Sarah Wanenchak in Cyborgology. Atemporality and Abandoned Digital Space

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March 31, 2012
"This “empire of time,” of course, consisted of the American fossil fuel industries. Where an empire extracts wealth from other countries for the benefit of an imperial nation, fossil fuel exploitation extracts wealth in the form of very cheap thermal energy from the distant past for the benefit of one or more nations in the present."

— John Michael Greer at The Archdruid Report. The Two Empires

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February 26, 2012
"Sagging forbids forgetting. Those towns that have passed laws criminalizing sagging—which often means criminalizing young minority men—make my point about the forgetting that we desire. The towns want to uphold “morality” and “decency” and “gentlemanliness,” qualities whose normative weight is based on silence and forgetting. Against the violence of normative silence and forgetting, sagging."

— keguro at Gukira. Sagging Time

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