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His advances are quiet but necessary ones: For instance, a backgrounding rather than foregrounding of the ego; an insistence on archetype, atemporality, and minimalist punctuation; and a preference for the non-metaphorized image.
Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011
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Last week, to follow on from the discussion of atemporality, I started sort of an essay/rant about the future being a fictional construct, the non-linear nature of “progress”, and how making and remixing intersect.
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His advances are quiet but necessary ones: For instance, a backgrounding rather than foregrounding of the ego; an insistence on archetype, atemporality, and minimalist punctuation; and a preference for the non-metaphorized image.
Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011
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He didn't define the problem, or even atemporality, but he gave examples that hinted at what he wanted to talk about, and he showed how the examples fit into the vague sort-of-societal frame occupied by the "creative artist," whose problems he specifically wanted to address.
The Condition of Atemporality Walter Jon Williams 2010
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Labels: atemporality, bruce sterling posted by dubjay at 11:00 PM
The Condition of Atemporality Walter Jon Williams 2010
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Reid grants that perceptions, memories and imaginings often differ in degree of force and vivacity, but, he argues, this difference is insufficient to account for the special quality of presentness represented in perceptions, the special quality of pastness represented in memories, and the special quality of atemporality represented in imaginings.
Reid on Memory and Personal Identity Copenhaver, Rebecca 2009
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If anything, it is the present moment itself that feels like an end to history, a white-washing of America that threatens us with its own illusion of atemporality, of being frozen in place despite a desire by many Americans to move ahead.
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A prime example of atemporality is the fad for photography apps like
NYT > Home Page By SIMON REYNOLDS 2011
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The Internet allows for varieties of atemporality, some of them semi-intended consequences
Disquiet 2010
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Da Vinci to contemporary fetishes, Bruce Sterling examines each subject from the standpoint of atemporality.
WN.com - Articles related to Steven Spielberg eyes Australia for new dinosaur movie 2010
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