The Agitated Now: Perceptions of Time and the Contemplative Space of Art

&ldquo;The Agitated Now&rdquo; was first presented as the 23rd Annual Kimon Friar Lecture at the American College of Greece in June 2018. Kimon Friar, U.S. Fulbright Research Scholar in Modern Greek Literature at the University of Athens (1954&ndash;1955), was a poet, anthologist, and first major translator of modern Greek poetry.

Notes

The phrase &ldquo;the agitated now&rdquo; is taken from Ernst Bloch, as quoted in Jack Zipes&rsquo;s &ldquo;Introduction: Toward a Realization of Anticipatory Illumination,&rdquo; in The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays, by Ernst Bloch, trans. Jack Zipes&nbsp;

and Frank Mecklenburg (Cambridge, MA: The MIT

Press, 1988), xix.

1. Han, Byung-Chul. The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering, trans. Daniel Steuer (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2017), 18.

2. Ibid. &ldquo;Chapter 3: The Speed of History,&rdquo; 20&not;&ndash;27.

3. Cavafy, Constantine. &ldquo;Ithaca,&rdquo; in Modern Greek

Poetry, trans. and ed. Kimon Friar (Athens: Efsta- thiadis Group, 2005), 38&ndash;39.

4. Ibid.

5. Jung, Carl G., et al. Man and His Symbols (New York: Dell, 1964), 32.

6. Ibid., 42.

7. Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams: The Complete and Definitive Text, trans. and ed. James Strachey (New York: Basic Books, 2010).

8. Freud, &ldquo;Dreams and Telepathy,&rdquo; in On Creativity and the Unconscious: Papers on the Psychology of Art, Literature, Love, Religion, ed. Benjamin Nelson

(New York: Harper Brothers, 1958), 236&ndash;63.

9. Freud, &ldquo;Mourning and Melancholia,&rdquo; in Sigmund Freud: Collected Papers, trans. Joan Riviere (Lon- don: Hogarth Press, 1949), 4:155.

10. Becker, Carol. &ldquo;Herbert Marcuse and the Sub- versive Potential of Art,&rdquo; in The Subversive Imagina- tion: Artists, Society, and Social Responsibility (New

York: Routledge, 1994), 113.

11. Marcuse, Herbert. The Aesthetic Dimension:

Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics (Boston:

Beacon Press, 1978), 7&ndash;8.

12. Friar, Kimon, trans. and ed., Modern Greek Poetry (Athens: Efstathiadis Group, 2005), 24.

13. Robert Smithson used the phrase &ldquo;ruins in re- verse&rdquo; in &ldquo;The Monuments of Passaic,&rdquo; Artforum 6, no. 4 (December 1967): 52&ndash;57.

14. Jack Zipes discusses these concepts through- out his &ldquo;Introduction: Toward a Realization of Antic- ipatory Illumination,&rdquo; in The Utopian Function of Art and Literature by Ernst Bloch, XI-XIII.

15. Cavafy. &ldquo;Ithaca,&rdquo; in Modern Greek Poetry, 3.

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