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Douglas Rushkoff, Present Shock

"We have spent a great part of the 20th century obsessed with the future. People were looking forward. The rise of the digital age held the promise that the future would bring change, invigorated by new technologies. computer speeds would double each year, and along with that
Now it has arrived. The future is now. Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. We are living in an eternal present, where everything is always on and happening in real time. t's not a mere speeding up, however much our lifestyles and technologies have accelerate the rate at which we attempt to do things. It's more of a diminishment of anything that isn't happening right now - and the onslaught of everything that supposedly is. Yet this now is an elusive goal that we can never quite search. And the dissonance between our digital selves and our analog bodies has thrown us into a new state of anxiety: present shock.

As a result , our culture becomes an entropic, static hum of everybody trying to capture the slipping moment.

Luigi Russolo, The art of noises

roars claps noises of falling water driving noises bellows

whistles snores snorts

whispers mutterings rustlings grumbles grunts gurgles

shrill sounds cracks buzzings jingles shuffles

percussive noises using: metal wood skin stone baked earth ...

animal and human voices: shouts moans screams laughter rattling sobs

This same view of a future, energized by new technologies, is what drove the futurist at the end of the industrial revolution. When Russola write's with the endless multiplication of machinery one day we will be able to distinguish between hold

energy momentum pull promise

Mirror setup

We were no longer adjusting to individual changes but at the accelerating rate of change itself

trying to graps the now. Yet this now is an elusive goal that we can never quite search

That is in short the gist of David Rushkoff's 2012 book : "Present Shock"

Pierre Huyghe

The individual's ability to get a handle on the present - to experience duration, to resist the condition of time as product, ...

A time negotiated in keeping with external constraints. A fiction extended into reality. An alternate coding of temporal practice. ....

Mechanisms for reclaiming time, as it is live for the individual

The agency of the individual by working through the infinite interpretations and folds of reality that are possible at every moment, p 2 - A fiction extended into reality. p1

This is the new now. Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time and always on. It's not a mere speeding up, however much our lifestyles and technologies have accelerate the rate at which we attempt to do things. It's more of a diminishment of anything that isn't happening right now - and the onslaught of everything that supposedly is.

People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, compile knowledge, and connect with anyone, at anytime. We strove for an instaneaous network where time and space could be compressed. Well, the future's arrived. We live in a continuous now enabled by twitter, email and the so-called realtime technological shift, Yet this now is an elusive goal that we can never quite search. And the dissonance between our digital selves and our analog bodies has thrown us into a new state of anxiety: present shock.

As a result , our culture becomes an entropic, static hum of everybody trying to capture the slipping moment.

when things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. press pause..

instead of cultural comparison the dessert offered an absolute renunciation or sweeping away of culture

People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future.

time perception of time,

Pierre Huyghe

Baudrillard Venice

"The future is now rights. We have spent the end of the 20th century being obsessed with the future. Looking forward. But now this has arrived. That is in short the gist of David Rushkoff's 2012 book : "Present Shock"

The individual's ability to get a handle on the present - to experience duration, to resist the condition of time as product, ...

A time negotiated in keeping with external constraints. A fiction extended into reality. An alternate coding of temporal practice. ....

Mechanisms for reclaiming time, as it is live for the individual

The agency of the individual by working through the infinite interpretations and folds of reality that are possible at every moment, p 2 - A fiction extended into reality. p1