TIMES, TIME, AND HALF A TIME. A HISTORY OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM.

Comments on a cultural reality between past and future.

This blog describes Metatime in the Posthuman experience, drawn from Sir Isaac Newton's secret work on the future end of times, a tract in which he described Histories of Things to Come. His hidden papers on the occult were auctioned to two private buyers in 1936 at Sotheby's, but were not available for public research until the 1990s.



Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Rationalism and Anti-Rationalism

Image: Ward Shelley.  Image Source: Boing Boing.

A few days ago, Boing Boing ran a piece about a great graphic depiction of the history of Science Fiction by artist Ward Shelley (Hat tip: Boing Boing via Lee Hamilton).  The history is symbolically presented as a series of interconnected organs, as in a medical diagram of a body.  The section above is the one that interests me the most, and is relevant for understanding the origins of ideas that are floating around at our turn of the Millennium.  I sense that the great conflict between Rationalism and Anti-Rationalism, embodied respectively in the Enlightenment (as in: Science) and in Romanticism (as in: Fiction) is now reaching a point where the two have reconverged almost completely.  After two hundred years of wars, revolutions, genocides, as well as political, social, industrial and technological revolutions, the West's Yin and Yang are combining to form a mashed-up shade of gray.  Truth has become fiction and fiction has become truth.  Reality has become unreal and vice versa.  Shelley's whole image is below the jump; you can click on it to see it close up.

Image: Ward Shelley. Image Source: Boing Boing.

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