February 2012
2 posts
Mnemonic Arbitrage →
“Mnemonic arbitrage” ties into the idea of experiencing the moment to look back on it. Mnemonic arbitrage occurs when an individual “[firms] up the present by experiencing it as a memory, by experiencing it from the future as a moment in the past”. The individual “grounds the present on the past, and the future on the past recaptured”, such that riding a bike in Central Park is not ‘the moment.’...