‘the world is viewed without myself’ ((reading) marker after wells)

horsemouth has been sitting out in the sun LRB’ing it - mainly fredric jameson’s in hyperspace a review of david wittenberg’s ‘time travel: the popular philosophy of narrative’. (LRB, 10th september 2015 - hail people’s domestic recycling)

of course, if you know horsemouth’s writings, this covers a number of his key concerns - science fiction, utopian fiction, time travel and causality, ways and means of reaching a better future. and indeed he is not alone in this - this is ben seymour's territory - and indeed there's a showing of his film . Thu 10 May 2018, 7pm at the whitechapel gallery.

Dead the Ends, Trailer (2017) from Benedict Seymour on Vimeo.


here we are (reading) marker after wells - marker deploys his ‘I fell asleep and dreamed of a better world ...’ (a classic strategy of early utopias) as a technology, but wells provides us with an actual time machine - and a visual metaphor of time viewed from outside, from a kind of hyperspace. then there is the multi-verse...

‘modernity has in fact invented such a hyperspace from which to observe the observer: it is called the camera. and film becomes that logical extension of the time-travel narrative in that paradoxical sense in which... the world is viewed without myself...’

it’s a good(-ish) article - horsemouth will return to it when he has a little more time. (fabula - syuzhet)

last night horsemouth dreamed of being at a gig (hawkwind in a  modern incarnation - thanks for asking) with john clarkson, as another concert goer went to leave he passed horsemouth a whole series of cartoon strips laid out on ribbons (it now strikes horsemouth that they were kind of like film - but still later it strikes him that it is not like a film because the successive  images are read left to right rather than top to bottom).