A video which aims to hijack our concept or perception of where we are and what we're looking at, how quickly is time passing by, and the assurance and consistency in repeating ourselves. There's no anxiety when we know what to expect.
Nedko Solakov
At the mention of Jameson's metaphor of art being a 'speech in a dead language' relates to the idea of postmodernity being a break in 'historicity' (is this even a word?!). We are in a state of chaos, no longer running along a natural historical timeline that once existed which should therefore prompt much more exciting work which is created in entirely new conditions. This work below suggests Solakov's attempt to make a new language via music.
Still reading about schizophrenia:
Time, Space, and Schizophrenia
Crucial to Jameson’s understanding of the postmodern and his project of a cultural politics is the transition from a temporal logic to a spatial logic in postmodernism. The global capitalist or late capitalist culture is, as we have seen, what Jameson calls postmodernism. The spatialization of time is a result of the destruction of the temporality of the subject, of societies move towards schizophrenia. Time is an organizing system, a continuity within which the subject may situate him/herself as a unitary individual. Within multinational capitalism we find ourselves able only to map the globe.
However it is critical for the subject to be able to mentally or cognitively map him/herself within not only a geographically global system but also within a social one. Humans used to map themselves temporally within the scheme of history. However, as the subject becomes more fragmentary, as the subject approaches a society within which one finds the end of historicity, the ‘real’ diminishes while schizophrenia flourishes. Postmodernism was originally characterized by its refutation of the objective and totalizing truths of modernity; truths are deflated as one is left with nothing ‘real,’ just the empty shell of the contemplated referent and the subject and his/her contemplation. This “breakdown of the relationship between signifiers”, between the subject and how he/she contemplates the object, results in a schizophrenic reality.
