Flusser / Three Times
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Flusser's Conversation with Farocki CATCH PHRASES CATCH IMAGES, 1985
On the relation between image and text.
A total of twenty columns, under the general title 'Curie's Children', appeared in Artforum International between 1986 and 1991.
Flusser's article THREE TIMES in Artforum Feb, 1991:
Three Times:
The Wheel – Magic
The Stream – History
The Sandheap – Accident
"The three times, of course, are not completely consecutive; they overlap in our minds, our thoughts, our feelings. We have not "overcome" circular time, which beats out the rhythm of our daily living. Historical time governs our decisions and the acts we base on those decisions. As for post-Modern, sand-heap time, it remains an uncomfortable, confusing concept, which we have not yet incorporated into our experience and thinking. Yet it is this new time that shapes artistic creation. And thus it helps to make artists more conscious of the task to which they are committed: the inversion of the absurd tendency of the world toward entropy, toward ever more probable (and therefore ever less interesting) situations. Which is to say that artists are committed against the mindless stupidity of the world." – Vilém Flusser, Three Times
Boethius discusses the true nature of Fortune. Good fortune is temporal and vanishes quickly:
Mississippi River:
Clinamen [klyn-ah-mun] is the Latin name Roman philosopher Lucretius gave to the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in order to defend the atomistic doctrine of ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus. According to Lucretius, the unpredictable swerve occurs ‘at no fixed place or time’:
Tycho Brahe's Geo-Helio Model:
In Order Out of Chaos: Ilya Prigogine:
"What have we seen? oh, well,
We have seen waves, seen stars, seen quite a bit of sand; We have been shipwrecked once or twice; but, truth to tell, It's just as dull as here in any foreign land.
Republished in A.D. Reader Pt.1:
every possible accident must necessarily happen.
Flusser elsewhere:
Our species transmits acquired and inherited information from generation to generation.
This doubly contradicts nature. The Second Principle of Thermodynamics states that information contained within nature tends to be forgotten. Living organisms contradict that principle by preserving and transmitting genetic information. They constitute a memory in defiance of the entropy of nature. Mendel's biological law states that acquired information cannot be transmitted from organism to organism. Our species contradicts that law by having an elaborate cultural memory, progressively storing acquired information to which successive generations have access. This double negation of nature, although only temporary, constitutes the human condition. Human dignity, which distinguishes us from all other known beings, can be defined as the fact that we have both a genetic and a cultural memory, that we are 'historical beings'. Human dignity will acquire new meaning as electronic memories radically transform our cultural memory. This article considers some aspects of that transformation. (On Memory (Electronic of Ortherwise)), 1990