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Unhinged: Kairos And The Invention Of The Untimely, Robert Leston Jan 2013

Unhinged: Kairos And The Invention Of The Untimely, Robert Leston

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Traditionally, kairos has been seen as a “timely” concept, and so invention is said to emerge from the timeliness of a cultural and historical situation. But what if invention was thought of as the potential to shift historical courses through the injection of something new or alien into a situation? This essay argues that kairos has not been able to free itself from its historical constraints because it has been bound to a human sense of temporality. By evolving along patterns different from print, the apparatus of the cinema developed in a way where it was not bound to illustrating …


Poetic Instructions On How To Stretch Brain Muscles & Examine Carnal Desires, Guil Parreiras Jan 2013

Poetic Instructions On How To Stretch Brain Muscles & Examine Carnal Desires, Guil Parreiras

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