<The future happens behind you (where you can't see it) History is in front of you >
If I was feeling intellectual I'd start quoting Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History: "This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress." whoops, I did..Not entirely sure what it means but as philosophy it's great poetry.. To bed. m. --- Ruth Catlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes yes I followed the instructions very carefully > Sir. > > but still - backwards, forwards or sideways, > everytime I do anything > in Firefox it behaves like brainstorming professor- > eh what? what was > that? you want to do what? but I have all these > other much more > interesting widgets you might want to play with! no? > <10 seconds > later>oh i suppose we could just go back. > > have since tried it in Safari, which is useless for > anything other > than going backwards and forwards and it works a > treat. > : ))) > > It's funny the thing about time though; pressing > 'next' takes us to a > file you loaded previously. > > I still haven't recovered my equilibrium since > hearing that Indian > culture has us facing the past. > The future happens behind you (where you can't see > it) History is in > front of you (where you can see it) > > nope! > still can't compute > > : ) > R > > On 10 Mar 2008, at 22:57, Michael Szpakowski wrote: > > < "NEWS ALERT: Firefox plugins impede fluid > experience > of networked > Fluxus film." > My browser is so chokka with plugins now that it > takes 10 seconds > minimum to load each page.> > ah! - but you have to load the film into your > browser's cache first - so you click through the > whole > sequence once & *then* you use the back button to > play > it the correct way round -it should work completely > smoothly then.. > Or did you do that and my planning wasn't good > enough > -is that what you're saying Ruth? Well, is it? IS > IT? > DON'T JUST WALK OFF! > > I see 'Driven' made the Rhizome reblog :) > Looking forward to a steady stream of art goodies! > warmest > michael > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
