Time and space cannot exist side by side, but only one inside the other.
You are right when you say time does not exist but deploys things: time cannot be displayed, be outside, it cannot have a separate dimension, even a "temporal dimension" (the space of the soul); it would be a contradiction in terms. Death, for example, which is deployed by time and is a non-measure of time, is disappearance, a removal of space to an eternal elsewhere, an eternal visible; all the signs left by time are signs of erosion, of things coming apart, a loss of defined spatial distinction. Writing is a an omnivorous fish – a carp – on the river bed, ready to proliferate where time and space part company, opening the real into an estuary, not an unhealthy polymeric, resolution of space? Unhealthy because tradition has it that – to admonish us – it is also a supreme waste of time.
If space is resolved, time is wasted: when I return to myself, after quitting this paper and pen, I'll re-appropriate space within myself; I will be a copy of myself and will return to a point from which I did not set out. I will have left nothing behind but will find a self; in the meantime I will have written this note, asking words to do – despite the logos – something they cannot do.
You do not return to yourself: ever since mankind has had a language, he has no longer returned to himself – either by phylogenesis or ontogenesis.
A return to somewhere you've never been, completing something never given: this is what copying really means.

Tiziano Ogliari

 

Tomaso Kemeny