Timelessness without a future — art of the eternal present
echoes
From: Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
- Early text: D.: rap's lyrics "assert, both in message and meter, that things now can never be other than what IS." [d-2a:p14] [e-text]; "Ours is a generation (late-or post-Boom) divorced from Time" [d-3h:p12]; rap has "turned a Scene’s precise horror into precise, cutting-edge art" out of "its insularity and claustrophobia and absence of egress" [d-3h:p13]
- IJ echo: the addict's eternal present vs. AA's one-day-at-a-time; Subsidized Time as corporate colonization of the calendar; anhedonia's flat now (Hal).
- Weight: shared-preoccupation