tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post5948183148996691774..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: "The Romans created time machines that we still inhabit."Cord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-55850187143829094682007-07-19T08:42:00.000-04:002007-07-19T08:42:00.000-04:00Great vignette, Tim, and nice theorizing of this e...Great vignette, Tim, and nice theorizing of this emotion-laden moment. It's impossible NOT to be nostalgic around young children, because their ever-changing bodies are rocketing them forward in time in ways that we slow metabolism adults forget. The child's voice will be VERY different next year.Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-62893855820759828482007-07-17T14:44:00.000-04:002007-07-17T14:44:00.000-04:00I am listening to a recording I made not moments a...I am listening to a recording I made not moments ago of my son hearing his own recorded voice and reacting to it in a very engage fashion. He echoes his own voice with great interest. At twenty-four months, he is already embedded in the Digital Ages, where banal archives abound.<BR/><BR/>My digital technology encoded a moment in which my son used his language skills to inquire about another creature’s wants; it captured a moment of caring. That emotion, “caring,” a spark of love, has timelessness about it, an aura that exists only as a radiant gist in the moment of its expression. By attending to it, by playing with his sounds on my computer, I hope to arrange that moment and care for it over time. I just want something that I can turn to that will help me feel the way I felt when I witnessed what I did today.<BR/><BR/>I want a pre-packaged emotional zinger device.<BR/><BR/>Reading Benjamin at the dawn of the Digital Ages has radically changed my perspective and understanding of time, particularly in terms of time’s relationship to technology and to the institutional memories enabled by these technologies that we collectively call “history.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com