Forms of Recursion — Yuk Hui, Recursivity and Contingency
“It is often tempting to deduce that in history, as in nature, the most common shape is the sphere. This is how ancient civilizations understood time. Alternatively, we could think beyond the binary cyclical/linear and argue that history can proceed linearly and cyclically, it can spiral and fork at any time.” — Eleni Kefala, Playing Hopscotch in the Gaps of History
Ikaria 2025
Berlin 2025
“In the spiral he saw time covering a field ever wider as it moved away, a cyclone whose present moment contains motionless the eye. … He wrote me: I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember, we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?” — Chris Marker, Sans Soleil (1983)
Tangier 2023