The present exists in fragments, just like the past; it too can only be incompletely known. We have come to recognize the immensity of these partial perspectives. Time has not simply been bundled into an image; it has not allowed itself to be boxed into the postmodern, that by now useless category; time has lost time, you could say, to the point where it can become the problem through which to study our art, our architecture and our films. This course will examine all of these matters, working by sample in search of a better definition of the present.

molly nesbit