Schizophrenic temporality makes present experience overwhelmingly vivid and material

Evidence

The reduction of experience to ‘a series of pure and unrelated presents’ further implies that the ‘experience of the present becomes powerfully, overwhelmingly vivid and “material”: the world comes before the schizophrenic with heightened intensity, bearing the mysterious and oppressive charge of affect, glowing with hallucinatory energy’ (Jameson, 1984b, 120). The image, the appearance, the spectacle can all be experienced with an intensity (joy or terror) made possible only by their appreciation as pure and unrelated presents in time. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 367

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: An attentional experience can reveal whole swaths of familiar environment previously unheard — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 369; Proustian art recuperates fragmentary present experience through linguistic expression, not memory — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 298

Broader Connections

• An attentional experience can reveal whole swaths of familiar environment previously unheard #expands (0.72) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 369