BEER Group Read. Bruce Winterslow and Vyrva McElmo

[Robin Landseadel]

We're on digital time—every nanosecond counts. Think of the transition  
from LPs to CDs to DVDs and beyond. The distortion of the time  
inherent in the media moves from the wow & flutter of analog discs to  
the jitter for CDs to judder for DVDs, the subdivision of clock time  
becoming finer and finer. The goal is to be totally accurate with no  
wiggle room. The old flexibility of subjective time being sequestered  
by shiny new digital clocks. it looks like a departure, but it's  
really being suckered into a digital trap.

On Oct 14, 2013, at 4:55 AM, John Bailey wrote:

> Bleeding Edge seems time-obsessed. We might even get [SPOILER] the
> origins of AtD's trespassers, maybe not. I'm also thinking of M&D's
> clock conversation, in which they're charged with keeping different
> geo-times while occupying the same space. Seems pertinent. Seems like
> something P has been trying to do (and also problematising) his whole
> career. BE is trying to render a time-space (NY 2001) both ruptured
> and continuous.

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