Comments on: The Golden Age of Never http://hesitating.org/2007/02/19/the-golden-age-of-never/ Thinking critically about the world so that you don't have to. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:25:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Brendan http://hesitating.org/2007/02/19/the-golden-age-of-never/#comment-4075 Brendan Sat, 24 Feb 2007 08:42:10 +0000 http://hesitating.org/2007/02/19/the-golden-age-of-never/#comment-4075 I've always made the assumption that the tendency to look at 'eras' and pieces of time was a simple human archiving of time's passage... We're trained to view time in terms of a calender, the calender becomes decades and so forth, so it makes sense that a species trained in these terms would reflect on the 60's as a whole even if the beginning was more similar to events of the preceeding decade the the end more similar to those of the next... All in all they're arbitrary guidelines for dealing with chronology which dictates for most people how experience happens... Most stories follow a timeline, movies follow a timeline, people follow a timeline... Not sure if you could escape this way of relating to time and the human experience-- it would require radically altering your perception of past events where 'past' becomes irrelevant... Careful not to let your brain melt... So where does that leave how the future reflects upon the now? Fucked if I know but I suppose if there is a future to be doing this reflecting we didn't monkeyfuck everything all the way... They'll probably be pissed about a couple of things, I'd wager... I hope I am then... I’ve always made the assumption that the tendency to look at ‘eras’ and pieces of time was a simple human archiving of time’s passage… We’re trained to view time in terms of a calender, the calender becomes decades and so forth, so it makes sense that a species trained in these terms would reflect on the 60′s as a whole even if the beginning was more similar to events of the preceeding decade the the end more similar to those of the next… All in all they’re arbitrary guidelines for dealing with chronology which dictates for most people how experience happens… Most stories follow a timeline, movies follow a timeline, people follow a timeline… Not sure if you could escape this way of relating to time and the human experience– it would require radically altering your perception of past events where ‘past’ becomes irrelevant… Careful not to let your brain melt…

So where does that leave how the future reflects upon the now? Fucked if I know but I suppose if there is a future to be doing this reflecting we didn’t monkeyfuck everything all the way… They’ll probably be pissed about a couple of things, I’d wager… I hope I am then…

]]> By: Berit http://hesitating.org/2007/02/19/the-golden-age-of-never/#comment-3915 Berit Tue, 20 Feb 2007 23:55:48 +0000 http://hesitating.org/2007/02/19/the-golden-age-of-never/#comment-3915 a tower of a different color - sometimes iconography from the past can act as a frame (both figuratively and architecturally) for representing the hopes and fears of the present regarding the future, and for understanding the history out of which the present was born. http://www.whitney.org/biennial2006/projects/tower/ (click on "learn" ... unfortunately the individual 2006 peace panels are no longer available for viewing online) a tower of a different color -

sometimes iconography from the past can act as a frame (both figuratively and architecturally) for representing the hopes and fears of the present regarding the future, and for understanding the history out of which the present was born.

http://www.whitney.org/biennial2006/projects/tower/

(click on “learn” … unfortunately the individual 2006 peace panels are no longer available for viewing online)

]]> By: Alan http://hesitating.org/2007/02/19/the-golden-age-of-never/#comment-3904 Alan Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:21:33 +0000 http://hesitating.org/2007/02/19/the-golden-age-of-never/#comment-3904 "If built, the lamentable Freedom Tower would be a constant reminder of our loss of ambition, and our inability to produce an architecture that shows a genuine faith in America’s collective future rather than a nostalgia for a nonexistent past." http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/arts/design/19towe.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin “If built, the lamentable Freedom Tower would be a constant reminder of our loss of ambition, and our inability to produce an architecture that shows a genuine faith in America’s collective future rather than a nostalgia for a nonexistent past.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/arts/design/19towe.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

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