“In our effort to desanctify all spaces, time itself begins to collapse and disappear.”
Philosophy frees mankind from thinking of time and space as mere physical problems to be solved. It is a mystery informed by the temporospatial nature of man. When the para-psychological and the technological are combined, time travel becomes possible.
“The temporospatial nature of man is a signifier to the essential need to be aware of one's position within time and space — as it relates to the places we matriculate through. In the contest between persona and personality, the former is often the victor when a noble will is absent. If identity is a primary modality within which man navigates time and space, then identity must be eroded in order to matriculate from space to space.” - David Delt. “Heaven on Earth”
“we are quickly reaching a point where history is becoming unavailable”
What is the void? Is it nothing or a disordered something? With this in mind and to illustrate, although a place may be a finite locality in relation to the direction we identify as, shall we say, east, there is no place where east begins. Likewise, our current paradigm may be a finite point relative to the past, although there is no time where the past begins. In relation to where we reside on the temporal axis, we are quickly reaching a point where history is becoming unavailable, while the future is rapidly disappearing. This is the age of simultaneity. When we consider the fatal intersection of time and space, we must be careful to differentiate between sacred and profane spaces.
Furthermore, when we consider the issues that surround all spaces occupied by our populations, proximity emerges as an element that must be thoughtfully and carefully managed. The mismanagement of proximity between fellow beings leads to great anxiety. Due to this mismanagement of space, we are no longer able to enjoy time. This leads to a singularity where the past becomes unavailable, while the future once envisioned begins to disappear. In our effort to desanctify all spaces, time itself begins to collapse and disappear. In Heaven on Earth, I state: “If history has been unmade, then the future no longer exists. One can never revert back to the primordial because history has been unmade vis-à-vis the cancellation of the future.”
“In the age of anxiety, all spaces become eligible to become sites of temporary leisure.”
The goal of post-modernists seems to be the rasterization of space as homogenous while exorcising the world of all hidden sacredness. The attrition of life happens over time in space. Although the oppositions of; sky and earth, sacred and profane, fixed and convertible spaces still exist, our experiment in rasterization continues to flatten space as we attempt to erect paradise. It is important for us to remember that space is neither empty nor a negative, but is a set of relations that must be managed. In the age of anxiety, all spaces become eligible to become sites of temporary leisure.
“Heavens are meta-stable states, organizations, nations, etc. Hells are meta-chaotic states. One must traverse through complex, complicated, orderly, and disorderly environments while determining and developing the most authentic version of the self.” - David Delt. “Heaven on Earth”
We are surrounded by utopias - or so-called perfect sites which can never be significant places. The perfect presentation of these unreal spaces fills us with an uncanny dread concerning the attrition of our lives. These places are therefore like mirrors, for they are placeless places that are indicators of our existence which lacks ontological significance and being. The utopia of these mirror-like places is where we wrestle with our visible shadows and the vestiges of a shattered family unit. Proximity without relationship induces unending anxiety. “The home becomes a prison. School becomes a corporation. The family becomes an enterprise. Individuals no longer exist for everyone is divided asunder by ethers of control. Many reside in heavens and hells simultaneously.”
“HETEROTOPIA: NOWHERE AND ELSEWHERE”
In contrast to these utopias, there are places that often have a specific function within society, while still being unreal spaces, despite their connection to the whole of society. These heterotopias also juxtapose several, often incompatible, spaces in one place. These "nowheres" are also "elsewheres" that serve a specific function within a society, while simultaneously being apart from society. Imagine a garden within a forest or a theater. In the case of the garden, we see a curated private space within a public space. In the case of the theater, public space becomes a place of privacy. Heterotopias are also places where we spend a specific type of time, which should not be conflated with a specific amount of time, although the latter is often the case. In the case of the cemetery, bodies rest for an indefinite amount of time in a garden where they appear, remain, yet simultaneously disappear all at once.
“Essentially, time arises from death anxiety. Time and Thanatos are eternally converged. It is the responsibility of all actualized individuals to respond to Thanatos appropriately. Consider this. Time flows from the future, into the past, then into the present — through Thanatos. There is constant insecurity in post-modern life — for we are in anticipation of a future which has disappeared. The disappearance of the future obscures death and prevents us from living authentic lives.” - David Delt. “Time and Thanatos.”
“Heterotopias are physical or mental spaces that act as other spaces alongside existing spaces.”
Heterotopias are structured so that entry and exit make them accessible and inaccessible. They are both sanctified and penetrable. They are not the same as public places. The entrance into these places always features an exclusion of spaces that remain outside them.
Heterotopias are physical or mental spaces that act as other spaces alongside existing spaces. These are often spaces where norms of behavior are suspended. Heterotopias of crisis are places where people are admitted when in crisis. Heterotopias of deviation are places where abnormal behavior can be carried out. Slices of time can either be accumulative or transitory within heterotopias and usually require permission to enter or exit because they are not freely accessible.
Man as Dasein — or a being-which-is-there — navigates time and space with the future as a primary modality. In this post-modern paradigm, the world is being rendered a false paradise where only the winds of crisis and death can be felt. The earth becomes a non-place, not unlike a mirror, where we find ourselves there as false daseins.
“there is no time where the past begins.”