Consciousness

Placing myself in a train going to a distant place – surrounded by many people yet alone – looking to frames through the window punch – seeing distant places not knowing their stories – suddenly i find myself reaching the station. The station to me is a time machine! Taking people to far away lands, unknown places and traces, such a gift of industrialization! It took more than two months for Columbus to reach America from Spain. Where as it took just a day for me from the other side of the world. In just 24 hours, warping my known world and teleporting me to a new horizon. Speed. In Schivelbusch’s writing speed is the medium that plays the magic in between space and time. Speed allows the traveler perceive the space as living entity in that time, what Bergson called “duree”. Perception, the very subjective, is achieved by the individual and subjected to vary. Thus perception of time, space and distance differs. How much a traveler will be able to see is being defined by the speed. Speed shortened the ability to see while on board, at the same time allows travelers to push the boundary(which was limited by speed before) to see more,most.The means of transportation transport particles (thought, human, goods etc) from one place to another. According to Benjamin, the occurrence destroying their aura as remote, hard to get, in abundance and in scarcity. In contrast What I believe is that it also offers the opportunity to experience aura to more people.

To my understanding, Kwinter’s writing is about a system of becoming. A system of acuteness. A system that thrives for wholeness. The key point of the system is novelty that keeps the wheel moving in the realm of time. The four requirements of novelty are object, time, movement and event. For example time is a tool in monastery, even in industry to regulate certain need, divine proportion to regulate aesthetics and so on. All the tools/medium will act together at one time to build up the system which is prime and singular consciousness.