Creative maturation requires slow shadow-time beyond the reactive instant

Evidence

“Shadow,” they write, is an unintended consequence, an event vacuum, which remains invisible for passers by. It does not register on the development maps of the managerial class. Time is needed in order for the substantially different to grow. Maturation, which is creative growth, requires time. … It is imperative that we carve out some spaces beyond the hyper-bright instant. This instant is insomniac, amnesiac; it locks us into a reactive time, which is always full (of outrage and pseudo-novelty). There is no continuous time in which shadows can grow, only a time that is simultaneously seamless (without gaps: there is always “new” content streaming in) and discontinuous (each new compulsion makes us forget what preceded it). The result is a mechanical and unacknowledged repetition. Is it still possible for us to cultivate shadows? — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1771

Categorization

• SEED: An essay on ‘shadow time’ against the always-full reactive instant of social media — the insomniac-amnesiac temporality argument could anchor a piece on creative slowdown.
• XREF: Strongly connects to ch105’s war over time and the need for absorbed drift and non-instrumental wasted time as precondition of the genuinely new. — connects to: A future-oriented unconscious drives creation forward into the not-yet-existent; Creative thought requires an initial silence that clears prior mental assumptions — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 453; Interiorization of natural time transforms mere sequence into subjective synthetic unity — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel: Plasticity,…, 392 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Creative thought requires an initial silence that clears prior mental assumptions #complicates (0.80) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 453
• A future-oriented unconscious drives creation forward into the not-yet-existent #responds-to (0.72)
• Interiorization of natural time transforms mere sequence into subjective synthetic unity #corroborates (0.70) — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 392