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Chronicle #II of the time about to stop..

Article 1

With modern life and various comforts that the technologies they gain on us are giving, do we gain time? Les than likely. We always run after it, we are hurry, stressed. Just time for tying shoes, swallowing instant coffee, getting to work, then we have to get back to sleep. We have to plan something else, it's urgent. After deep thoughts, we have decided to take a radical step: we have decided to suspend the time at the first day of springtime.

Article 2

While trains are running faster, while HST is saving time, while there are pre-washed salads, disposable plates, where is the time going by? Nobody leaves. Time is flying by throughout our pockets as if they had a hole in, our brain is a sieve where our memory run away through. Only cows they look trains passing by when trains are not running too fast et when cows are sill there to look at them. That's the way the life is passing by, probably too fast for the most of us who are too busy to appreciate except when it is too late.

Article 3

Where is the time going by? Good question, indeed. Because time is money, we spend time by giving time to earn money to be able to spend it. Thus we always are "deprived" of time. As there are moneyboxes to keep money, there would be boxes to keep time. Five minutes here, they'll be taken from the time for talking for the sake of talking, five minutes ther, they'll be taken from the time of a non-sense télévision programme-- With also time wait springtime. A lot of! And recycled time, too, that is salvaged time in wating for a bus or uselessly spent time in a queue at a post counter. Precious minutes to re-use after capitalizing them not to miss a plane, a date or to prolong life of ours, which we never enough think about, except at the time to be about to lose it.

Article 4

Caution! Put right your own watches because time will stop on next 20th of March at 12:00:00. Think to it!

Article 5

There is the cherries in the trees time and the starving cows' one. They have nothing to do with each other. Cows are never purple but cherries have always a tail.

Article 6

So to speak : To spend time by doing nothing more coarsely is to "bugger out". The opposite, that is not to spend time, then would constist of doing something. Well, it's questionable, because the best you can do is at least to cleverly use this time to think instead of continually moving about nothing.

Article 7

In our modern daily life, we are involved into a constantly accelerated move, which The technological environment we have installed is quite contrubuting to. Time has changed.

Some consider the time is in "bits". The others (the machines) count it and edit it with nanoseconds. Anyway, we are down under the influence of it. We experience the tyrany of time. It's time to free ourselves!

Article 8

Comrades, the washing time is urging. From now on, time has come to restore the facade, to chuck out the democratic centralism, to shelve, with a pillow on his head, the little father of the Revolution, to inform on the old-fashioned ideology from a the past, when "stakhanovism" imposed tyrany of production and rates; in the same time, to postpone Taylor et his fans indefinitely; To advocate at least the lazinessright againt the tyrany of Time.

Article 9

That the reasons why we, as gullible artists, (As they say all the real artists are?), have decided, once and for all, to end this infernal spiral of a unstandable and alienating lived time. At least stop! to live and, above all, to know, while we are approaching the 2000's gate, what we want to do with this new millenary, and, above all, how we want to practise it and to live? You will see: we'll get to eat commemoration everyday we'll be used as dogbodies! The graduates of Centre Georges Pompidou and their staff (not to let them to be too obviously bored while they renew the raffinery...) have been mobilized for and they have not forgotten to already warn the american artists, as preferentially usually, and the old same stars" of market of Art, about bugdets to be widely spent. And, above all, about good bargains, for their agent and gallery. Think to it!

Article 10

To eat time as we eat white bread. Did you know this expression? The time eaters do exist: I've seen them!

They don't go into details, for sure. They have a gob to swallow. Either they just get in without warning when you are buzy in the kitchen or they pester you with phoning until midnight to tell you about the last diseease of their doggy, while you have to produce a fifty pages report tomorrow morning and you just didn't write the firt line. They are called chronophages, too. They belong to organized tribes they devastate all without considering class but with a never failing apetites.