#obliscence

[subliminaldrew]

[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.'

[conesofobliscence]

A quick summary and introduction to Geoffrey Sonnabend's theory of Obliscence.

[billdomonkos]

Obliscence, Theories of Forgetting and the Problem of Matter by Geoffrey Sonnabend

(GIF: Bill Domonkos, 2014) (Photo: Fred Holland, 1898)

[breathing-ripples]

"step through into alan's world."

[aviatorslandnomore]

obliscence

[obliscent]

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Boreas — Class I Group 3 Experience, Pitch 106º Altitude 0

Some time ago, I wrote about the peculiar idea of memory as decaying experience. (I liked it so much that I changed the name of this blog). Some friends wrote me a song about this idea, and I think it's superb.