TEMPS PERDU? ON TRANSIENCE
It seems as if duration were still a “first-rate value on earth” (Nietzsche), whereas its eternal supplement – transience – tends to be negated. Eluding its re-presentation(ability), ephemera are only thought in relation to and/or as being-opposed to permanence. Yet, it is precisely transience that...
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| description | It seems as if duration were still a “first-rate value on earth” (Nietzsche), whereas its eternal supplement – transience – tends to be negated. Eluding its re-presentation(ability), ephemera are only thought in relation to and/or as being-opposed to permanence. Yet, it is precisely transience that renders duration possible: Transitions being the only state(s) existing, duration is a mere instant of transience. Thus, the aim here is to (de)void transience of duration, that is, to liberate it from any reductionist relationality imposing a consistency external to it. To think it as such: to think it as transiences, to think them as and for themselves; neither as derived from, nor as pro-genitor of (duration). To think transiences as such rather than as such is to relate them to their becoming-different, for they are relating difference to differences – every transience is different, each time different; already-always–dis-placed, they are always somewhere else, never (t)here. Given this pre-supposed distance, they are (only) when they are not. Transiences are always–already–untimely, already–always–beyond (themselves). To de-scribe transiences without a-scribing them to permanence is to weakly transcribe it: TRANSience ; par transiAnce ; pour transiEnces
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| spelling | doaj.art-7e7fb381562c43618ce6f0629858ac332023-11-02T07:43:15ZengBucharest University PressUniversity of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series2734-59632022-02-01XI/20091TEMPS PERDU? ON TRANSIENCEJulia HölzlIt seems as if duration were still a “first-rate value on earth” (Nietzsche), whereas its eternal supplement – transience – tends to be negated. Eluding its re-presentation(ability), ephemera are only thought in relation to and/or as being-opposed to permanence. Yet, it is precisely transience that renders duration possible: Transitions being the only state(s) existing, duration is a mere instant of transience. Thus, the aim here is to (de)void transience of duration, that is, to liberate it from any reductionist relationality imposing a consistency external to it. To think it as such: to think it as transiences, to think them as and for themselves; neither as derived from, nor as pro-genitor of (duration). To think transiences as such rather than as such is to relate them to their becoming-different, for they are relating difference to differences – every transience is different, each time different; already-always–dis-placed, they are always somewhere else, never (t)here. Given this pre-supposed distance, they are (only) when they are not. Transiences are always–already–untimely, already–always–beyond (themselves). To de-scribe transiences without a-scribing them to permanence is to weakly transcribe it: TRANSience ; par transiAnce ; pour transiEnces https://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/past-issues/2008-2019/2009-2/2008-2/transiencetransiancedurationtimedifference |
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