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Thursday, 26 September 2019


Attention is so enchanted by the visual that you imagine you can feel spatiality from the inside. But in this you are just superimposing the inner sense of the gesture which is purely temporal and qualitative, purely musical, onto some aspect of the visual field for which you have no corresponding inner sense at all, a fleeting representation of copresence. Which is to say that time and space are radically asymmetric and what you are is only the temporalisation. Indeed, if dreams are evidence of anything it is of the pure fictitiousness of space - you make up spaces as you need them the better to try to organise the overflowing of your experience as time. By the same token the sense of time as a linear succession of instants is a further confusion. You can't say what time is, this mysterious upwelling, this reaching and receding, because you are time, or better you are temporalisation without any possibility of a fixed object. 

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