Ore

What time is now?

The dream of power: to become time, to embody its abstractions and the way it will not be destroyed. If it is possible to become what is eaten, power eats time, to tune the instrument of its incessant hunger to construct, demolish, form; it needs concrete, mortar, beams, bodies; to crush stone, bones, flesh––and does so, until time itself is called into question and the countdown begins. 

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Notes while reading Achille Mbembe’s Brutalism.

Author: Stacey C. Johnson

I keep watch and listen, mostly in dark places.

2 thoughts on “Ore”

  1. A muse for the day’s amusement. Thanks for puzzlement — to become time. I love getting more insight into the human condition. I shall play with this one.

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