Tracing Time

                                         "Tracing time series", by Claire Morgan

"Saving time"; "leaving a trace": Aren't we hearing those phrases all the time, and in different situations? "Save time by signing up online", or "write a message to immortalize this monument or that moment." Tomorrow, another way of saving up even more time as well as further opportunities to memorialise will come forth with bewildering rapidity.

In saving there is expressed a fear of death and in tracing a desire to live on after death. Today, fear of death is exacerbated for the simple reason that God himself is dead, which translates into fear of the unknown. In this context, living on to posterity, posthumously, becomes impossible, as "everything melts into air" and as impermanence, immediacy and amnesia have taken over, and the only desire left is the imperative to accumulate time (and of course money). 

By dint of saving, erasing, deleting, downsizing, shortcutting everything we do or buy -- this for the sole purpose of making more profits -- the Subjet-being (ontos) tends to disappear, too. There is no telos either, no transcendental, messianic goal beyond that of "cashing in". The power of the system draws from its invisibleness and from the absence of God. So that when the planet is finally destroyed, no traces of ourselves and of our civilization will be left...

(this post ends here because I have neither time nor memory to finish it)