XLII / The Portico at the Shore

The Portico Books II:
The Virtual Clock

The Virtual Clock explores how to keep with time among relations without ground (The Portico Book Vol. I). It approaches time as a spacing that crosses itself chiastically, returns without repetition, and resists stabilization. From the analemma to the comma, from the receptive cipher disk to the eagerness of the clock fingers, from keeping count and letting to with discretion to mourning that complements likeness and to intuition that keeps itself in suspense, the book follows a sequence of conditions that give rise to space as an abduction out of time. The Virtual Clock is addressed to readers interested in philosophy, mathematics, architecture, the arts, écriture féminine, aesthetics, critical theory, and theories of history.