The Layers of Time
The layers of time are not chapters.
They close nothing.
They open.
Each layer is a way of seeing.
A stands toward knowledge, power and time.
Five Moments
The journey becomes visible in five moments:
Antiquity
Middle Ages
Renaissance
Industrial Revolution
Present Day / TFuture
Not as an overview.
Not as progress.
But as imprints of though.
Antiquity
The world is greater than the human being.
Knowledge is bound to order, cosmos and moral awareness
The human listens.
Time is cyclical.
What was returns.
Middle Ages
Knowledge is preserved.
Written, copied, protected.
The world is hierarchical.
Meaning lies beyond the human being.
Time is expectation.
Renaissance
The human steps forward.
Measuring, drawing, understanding.
The world becomes open to inquiry.
Time slows.
She is studied.
Industrial Revolution
The world becomes manufacturable.
Knowledge accelerates.
Production sets the rhythm.
Time becomes lineair.
Progress becomes the aim.
Present Day / Future
The world appears as data.
Knowledge abstracts.
Certainties shift.
Time is continuos.
Always present.
Always now.
No Judgements
No layer is better.
No layer is worse.
.
Each time contributes something.
Each time leaves something behind.
Transition
The layers are visible.
What remains is the question:
How do we look to what we see?
There the image begins.