Morning Computer: Dead Time

What comes after history?

Temps mort. Dead time.

Nadim Mai excerpts her essay on Bela Tarr for the imminent remastered collection of his films. I love Tarr’s films, and think about them constantly, in the same way that his collaborator Krasznahorkai thinks constantly about Kafka.

Relating to that essay, Matt Webb:

The late 90s was liberalism in the ascendant; the triumph of capitalism (not yet neoliberalism) but tempered still (we weren’t aware) by the post-war social contract; pre 9/11; no internet in mainstream culture.

You could say we had our heads in the sand, and we did, enjoying the middle years of the long boom and the end of history and the benevolent shadow of the Pax Americana, meanwhile chucking missiles into Afghanistan and not really thinking about what they’d do.

We didn’t have the end of the world again until quite recently.