Week 1 Reading Assignment: Giorgio Agamben And to be contemporary means in this sense to return to a present where we have never been. He goes onto say… It is as if this invisible light that is the darkness of the present cast its shadow on the past, so that the past, touched by this shadow, acquired the ability to respond to the darkness of the now. Notes: With an understanding of what has been created in the past as well as an understanding of what is being created in the present, one is more apt to respond with their own creation; but only because of this experience with both.  Bruce Nauman - Video Corridor Stan Brakhage - Black Ice “The past is never dead” — Faulkner “All history is contemporary history” 

Week 1 Reading Assignment: Giorgio Agamben

And to be contemporary means in this sense to return to a present where we have never been.

He goes onto say…

It is as if this invisible light that is the darkness of the present cast its shadow on the past, so that the past, touched by this shadow, acquired the ability to respond to the darkness of the now.

Notes:

With an understanding of what has been created in the past as well as an understanding of what is being created in the present, one is more apt to respond with their own creation; but only because of this experience with both. 

Bruce Nauman - Video Corridor

Stan Brakhage - Black Ice

“The past is never dead” — Faulkner

“All history is contemporary history”