The Ghost Lermurs of Madagascar #05 Time Compression, Abstraction and the Micro-pause 09292022

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

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• 00:00:00

  Hi everyone, I am Eduarda Camargo and I am your host in the Ghost Labyrinths of Madagascar. Right now we are at our fifth episode and at part six of the CCRU writings. As we go through this book, we are approaching its end. Finally, part eight is really extensive compared to other parts, but we're slowly but steadily…

• 00:16:26

  Of course, the culture is over-determinated by a series of factors, but it seems like the, the contact of ideas and the contact of aesthetic formations, they tend to disrupt things and they tend to be replicated in non-predictable fashion. And this is what I think it is really, really, really similar to what, to high…

• 00:30:19

  So yeah. So it's of course, it's kind of imaginary, of course. Yeah. I think maybe we live in such a green reality, which sort of kind of... It's like a kind of... It's like a kind of... It's like a kind of... It's like a kind of... It's becoming similar structurally to the 90s, maybe. I wouldn't say it's like…

• 00:45:23

  When you say time stretching, usually you mean make something longer. But at the same time, you know, you can use time stretching programs to make it shorter. So time compression in that sense. But of course, when you're talking about sound, you are not, I'm not sure if there is a translation. I'm not sure if there…

• 00:59:17

  Like they actually, people who are listening to messages in double speed, they actually, I take, I don't have this, this experience firsthand, but I take it that they understand what, what the people are saying. Yes. They think that the length of time that it takes to be said, it's a kind of, it's costly. In a certain…

• 01:11:53

  That is not the way I'm trying to understand it. This was going to I was going to say because I, I'm interested in the in the emergence of pattern, not not not as such as you know, the pattern as something that is instantiated, but the pattern of existed somewhere. Yeah, like the registration of the spatial temporal…

• 01:29:50

  I think it is the opposite. Letting yourself go is a way to not engage. It's a way to keep the experience at bay. You keep a passivity. It's just something happening there and you're not really engaged with it. So this is the problem. And it's the same kind of ideology that you get, for instance, when people…

• 02:46:18

  Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.