Monday, March 1, 2010

Persistence of Memory

“Most often linked to slices in time”

- If *They are linked to time, and time fades and disappears just as fast as it arrives does this not mean that heterotopias are always moving, always changing? This could very well make it that there is never a constant heterotopia and never will be, and just as one can’t predict the future one can also not predict the next heterotopia, when it will arrive, when it will leave, how long we’ll remember it, ad infinatum. Take Salvidor Dali and his "Persistence of Memory," was he painting the wasteland of the lost heterotopias? Everything is connected through time, but are there specifics. There is later talk about the boarding schools of the 18th century or forced enlistment (the draft). Or could there even be a distinct heterotopia for every moment of time? And if so... would it not be possible that Dali meant for this to be part of the plurality of his painting? Even when using the archives of the museum or library there could be no way of remembering or processing every heterotopia. Which is even more interesting because these places that store the remnants of time itself, these heterotopias, can be used to look back and remember heterotopias, so can it not be said that these places can thus be consider hyperheterotopias?

(Possibilities/Actions of history and the intricacies of society, hermeunatic, logic)

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