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Pat Kennedy, a rich banker, has decided to test Galenus-1, a new life extending molecule developed by his firm LifeGen. A month has now passed since he decided to isolate himself, like many of the very rich, far from the City of London and the Covid virus, at his villa on the French Riviera.That morning, when he awakes at the Villa Contessa, he feels a surge of freedom and immense pleasure. Bounding out of bed, he stretches, picks up the remote and zaps open the roller shutters of his large high ceilinged bedroom. The sun streams in from the southwest, it's another fine early summer morning. Shading his eyes, he admires the magnificent view over the terrace, the Mediterranean sparkling like ...
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Temporariness is a scandal in our culture of monumentalism and its persistent search for permanence. Temporariness, the time of the ephemeral and the performative, the time of speech, the time of nature and its constant changesthese times have little cultural purchase. In this volume two practitioners and theoreticians of time, space and the word embrace the notion of temporarinessseeing in it a site for a renewal of ways of thinking about ourselves, our language, our society and our environment. This collage of fragmentary genres approaches the notion of mitigated presence to build an atlas of intersections attentive to our own temporariness as the site of aesthetic and ethical responsibili...