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is a moving ratio of the recent past and the near future, a ratio in which one finds particular kinds of object domains and thus particular kinds of problems arising out of stylizations of old and new elements.

a moving ratio of the recent past and the near future, a ratio in which one finds particular kinds of object domains and thus particular kinds of problems. These object domains are emergent stylizations of old and new elements. As such, while many of the elements are familiar and well understood, their form, and therefore their significance and funciton are not. Among other things, this means that the problems encountered are emergent as well. (rabinow marking time) (in bennet, the evolution of evil p.297)

is he who firmly holds his gaze on his time so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness.

I would like at this point to propose a second definition of contemporariness: The contempo rary is he who firmly holds his gaze on his own time so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness. All eras, for those who ex perience contemporariness, are obscure. The contemporary is precisely the person who knows how to see this obscurity, who is able to write by dipping his pen in the obscurity of the pres ent. But what does it mean, 'to see an obscurity,' 'to perceive the darkness'' (Agamben 2009: 45)

is to be contemporary with oneself; thus, not to exist in the feared or expected future or in the past. To be contemporary with oneself is transparency in repose, and this is possible only through the relation to God, or it is the relation to God.

All people wish either to be or to become contempo­rary with great men, great events, etc. God knows how many people actually live contemporaneously with themselves. To be contemporary with oneself (thus, not in the feared or expected future or in the past) is transparency in repose, and this is possible only through the relation to God, or it is the relation to God.

is the only thing one can attest to with honesty. One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.

One must be of one's time and paint what one sees.

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