Frederic Jameson: "The End of Temporality"

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...but such descriptions are clearly predicated on the operative dualism, the alleged historical existence of the two Alternatives. The Moderns were obsessed with the secret of time, the Post-Moderns with that of space. The secret being now diet what Andre Malraux called the Absolute. We can observe a curious slippage in such investigations. Even when philosophy gets its hands on them, they begin by thinking they want to know what time is and end up trying more modestly to describe it by way of what Whitman called "language experiments" in the various media. So we have renderings of time from Gertrude Stein to Husserl, from Mala to Le Corbusier who thought of his static structures as so many trajectories. We cannot say that any of these attempts is less misguided than the more obvious failures of analytic cubism or Siegfried Gideon's relativity aesthetic. Maybe all we do need to say is contained in Derrida's laconic Epitaph on the Aristotelian philosophy of temporality in a sense it is always too late to talk about time. Can we do any better with space? The stakes are evidently different. Time governs the realm of interiority in which both subjectivity and Logic, the private, and the epistemological self-consciousness and desire are to be found. Space, as the realm of exteriority, includes cities and globalization, but also other people and nature. 

It is not so clear that language always falls under the aegis of time. We busily name the objects of the spatial realm for example well as for Sight the inner light and literal as well as figurative reflection are well-known categories of introspection. Indeed, why separate the two at all? Did not Kant teach us that space and time are both a priori conditions of our experience or perception, neither one to be gazed at with the naked eye and quite Inseparable from each other? And did not Bakhtin wisely recombine them in his notion of the chronotope, recommending a historical account of each specific Space-time Continuum as a gelled or crystallized? But it is not so easy to be moderate or sensible in the force field of Modernism where time and space are at war in a Homeric combat. Indeed, each one, as Hegel said about something else, desires the death of the other. You only have to look again at those pages in which the bard of Davos goes to the movies...