Category: landscape

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Precarious time is not only a time full of holes, increasingly marked by speed-ups and slow-downs, by transitions from work to unemployment, and by all kinds of part-time and temporary work. It is also a time when individuals live the intertwining of several heterogeneous temporalities – for example, that of wage-labour and that of study, of artistic creation and odd jobs from one day to the next; a time in which those who have been trained for one kind of work and do another, work in one world and live in another, proliferate. We can describe this time as composed of intervals, taking the word in a double sense: intermittent work, but also intervals between several temporalities. It is by starting out from these intervals that it is possible to think the new forms of interruption of the dominant time. (JR)

Sunny day. Richter at Fondation Louis Vuitton.

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In and through this dramaturgy of gestures, perceptions, thoughts and affects, it becomes possible for the carpenter to create a spiral which, in the midst of the compulsion of working hours, initiates a different way of inhabiting time, a different way of keeping a body and mind in motion.

… shattering the hierarchy of times.

(JR)

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Luisa A. Igloria —

Remember too: not all saying is true.

I have heard another story: how the Pont de l’Archevêché groans with the weight

of hundreds of padlocks, etched with promises made to eternity. What happens

when the language of the promise is wrong, when the word for “expensive” is

used instead of “love?”

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the temporality of things that happen ‘one after another’ (JR)

The rationality of the horizontal unfolding of time is based on a vertical hierarchy that separates two forms of life, two ways of being in time – as we might simply put it, the way of those who have time and the way of those who do not.

The justice of time …

Aristotle’s Poetics: the justice that causes active men to pass from good fortune to misfortune and from ignorance to knowledge.

Plato’s Republic. It consists in an orderly distribution of times and spaces, activities and capacities, and is based on a precondition stated by Plato at the very outset of the narrative about the foundation of the city. This precondition is that artisans, who must not have time to go elsewhere, time to do anything other than the work which cannot wait, should be kept exclusively in the space of the workshop.

Ranciere, Time, Narrative, Politics

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