http://news.absurd.services/taxonomy/term/568/all en http://news.absurd.services/betwixt-worlds <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-reference"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/stephen-wright">Stephen Wright</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-datestamp field-field-date"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <span class="date-display-single">Monday, 24. October 2011 (All day)</span> </div> </div> </div> <fieldset class="fieldgroup group-photos"><legend>Photos/Videos/Files</legend><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-photos"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img class="imagefield imagefield-field_photos" width="492" height="429" title="Julio Cortazar, &quot;Around the Day in Eighty Worlds&quot;" alt="80mundos" src="http://news.absurd.services/sites/default/files/page/photos/80mundos.jpg?1319495048" /> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-number-integer field-field-num-images"> <div class="field-label">Number of Images in Teaser:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> 1 </div> </div> </div> </fieldset> <p>Which is ultimately the more felicitous title: Jules Verne&#39;s classic <em>Around the World in Eighty Days</em>? Or Julio Cort&aacute;zar&#39;s cross-purposed variant, <em>Around the Day in Eighty Worlds</em>? The former heralds an awe-inspiring feat in the era of colonial expansion, while the latter seeks to capture the dizzying heterogeneity of our own collaged temporalities -- wheeling motionless through time at eighty-worlds-a-day. One world or many?</p> <p><a href="http://news.absurd.services/betwixt-worlds" target="_blank">read more</a></p> double ontologies ontological chauvinism plausible art worlds polyworldism worlds Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:32:49 +0000 Stephen Wright 1585 at http://news.absurd.services