Permanent/Permanence – Time and Temporality
Can “anything” be permanent? Or is everything in transition?
Permanent – lasting or tending to last indefinitely; remaining unchanged; enduring. (opposite
of temporary – temporal; or pertaining to time. Pertaining to or concerned with the present life
or this world; worldly).
Is there any phenomenon in existence that does not change? If not, a paradigm (the set of all
forms containing a particular element) that presents permanence as reality is in opposition to
Nature. The culture’s representations reflect a belief that it can be distinguished from Nature.
It follows that a cultural paradigm that does not acknowledge Chance sees itself able to
control Nature thorough understanding of and harnessing natural forces.
iscusses an important strain in global visual cultures: the notion of time that is not necessarily linear or chronological and the impact this has on global communities.
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