#Geoffrey Sonnabend - Obliscence: Theories Of Forgetting and The Problem Of Matter

[vulpineknave]

Song for the asking, Simon&Garfunkel / Blue bucket of gold, Sufjan Stevens / The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot / Everything waits to be noticed, A. Garfunkel / Still Water prose poems, 48, A. Garfunkel / Obliscence, Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter by Geoffrey Sonnabend, MJT, V. Worth / Rene and Georgette Magritte with their dog after the war, P. Simon / Two slow dancers, Mitski

[areyougonnabe]

We, amnesiacs all, condemned to live in an eternally fleeting present, have created the most elaborate of human constructions, memory, to buffer ourselves against the intolerable knowledge of the irreversible passage of time and the irretrievability of its moments and events.

Geoffrey Sonnabend, Obliscence, Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter (cf. “Valentine Worth,” cf. David H. Wilson of the Museum of Jurassic Technology)

[waterlili]

a beautiful gif that beatifully illustrates Geoffrey Sonnabend - Obliscence: Theories Of Forgetting and The Problem Of Matter 

i want to give credit but don’t know who?? anybody know who made this??!

[ecstaticmagic]

'We, amnesiacs all, condemned to live in an eternally fleeting present, have created the most elaborate of human constructions, memory, to buffer ourselves against the intolerable knowledge of the irreversible passage of time and the irretrievability of its moments and events.' —Geoffrey Sonnabend, from 'Obliscence: Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter.'