Altermodern Continuum Quotes

Altermodern is an in-progress redefinition of modernity in the era of globalisation, stressing the experience of wandering in time, space and mediums. The term 'altermodern has its roots in the idea of 'other-ness (Latin alter = 'other, with English connotation of 'different) and suggests a multitude of possibilities, of alternatives to a single route. It suggests that the historical period defined by postmodernism is coming to an end, symbolised by global financial crises. ~ Nicolas Bourriaud

When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum. ~ Richard Grossman

Well old man, I guess freedom's a continuum. ~ Nicholas Hochstedler

To avoid melodrama, recognize that emotions run along a continuum, from mild to extreme. For each situation, know where your character is along that continuum and choose appropriate descriptors. ~ Angela Ackerman

The continuum in which we live is not the kind of place in which middles can be unambiguously excluded. ~ Reuben Abel

We are dependent on each other. Therefore, replenishing the soil, replenishing society and being part of one continuum - that's the new story. ~ Satish Kumar

Change occurs on a continuum and does not move in a straight line. ~ Sharon Weil

Art is a continuum. ~ Daryl Hall

I see my work as a continuum, moving from book to book. ~ Jayne Anne Phillips

While we can prove that almost all numbers in the continuum are random, we cannot prove that any specific number is indeed random. ~ Heinz Pagels

When we look at social media, we really look at it on a continuum, and the continuum is from accumulation to instant expression. ~ Evan Spiegel

Mastery lies on an infinite continuum, and as a result we will never reach the end. We can, however, see to it that we are as far along that continuum as our circumstance allows. ~ Chris Matakas

I think that his description of modern society is profound, with great insights, but it is too unilateral. He doesn't see that I define the modern world essentially as deprived of sacrificial protection, that is, more and more exposed to violence. For ~ Continuum

There are no separate systems. The world is a continuum. Where to draw a boundary around a system depends on the purpose of the discussion. ~ Donella Meadows

There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences. ~ Mario Bunge

I do not have a home.I swing on a continuum between ridiculous and sublime. ~ Amit K Ghosh

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. ~ Francis Cabot Lowell

Bunce films them. So Joey who came out of one porn film would go into another. It could fuck up the whole space-time continuum. They could prosecute us."
"For?"
"Meta-fiction in the first degree? ~ David Pratt

Our relationship with places is a close bond, intricate in nature, and not abstract, not remote at all: It's enveloping, almost a continuum with all we are and think. ~ Tony Hiss

Mind and intuition are at opposite ends of the same continuum and our goal is to strike a healthy balance between the two. ~ Shakti Gawain

I always like to play very contemporary concepts of swing right next to New Orleans music because it highlights continuum. ~ Wynton Marsalis

Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience. ~ Deepak Chopra

After much deliberation and research, we have defi ned employee engagement as: The degree to which a person commits to an organization and the impact that commitment has on how profoundly they perform and their length of tenure . It is important to note that engagement is not an on/off switch. It is a continuum, and we will have employees who fall in various places on the continuum. The key to engagement is to move employees further along that continuum over time, as seen in Figure 1.7 . ~ Anonymous

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend's house. [Lat., Hospes nullus tam in amici hospitium diverti potest, Quin ubi triduum continuum fuerit jam odiosus siet. ~ Plautus

Science cannot tell you whether abortion is wrong, but it can point out that the (embryological) continuum that seamlessly joins a non-sentient foetus to a sentient adult is analogous to the (evolutionary) continuum that joins humans to other species. If the embryological continuum appears to be more seamless, this is only because the evolutionary continuum is divided by the accident of extinction. Fundamental principles of ethics should not depend on the accidental contingencies of extinction.* To repeat, science cannot tell you whether abortion is murder, but it can warn you that you may be being inconsistent if you think abortion is murder but killing chimpanzees is not. You cannot have it both ways. ~ Richard Dawkins

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum. ~ Karen Russell

With TV, there's a continuum with the crew and the cast so you feel like you have a sense of community in a way, which is similar to theater. ~ Mary-Louise Parker

The impact of space activities
is nothing less than the galvanizing
of hope and imagination for human life continuum
into a future of infinite possibility. ~ Vanna Bonta

My fingers scrabbled at the smooth leather interior of Ryu's BMW as he missed the exit we needed. Causing him to drop a few more F bombs and slam on the breaks. He then opened what I assume was a rift in the space time continuum in order to hurtle his German made steal cage of doom through said continuum. ~ Nicole Peeler

Ideally there is a type of continuum which flows from life through the artist's sensibility and his materials ... the concreteness of the object and its own life , through the spectator, with his expectations, interpretations, back into life. ~ Douglas Portway

I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that.
[Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe, Locus Magazine, September 1998] ~ Sheri S. Tepper

Style is a continuum. Style never changes. It's a straight line. It's a refinement of the same vocabulary. Style takes you from day to evening, season to season. ~ Ralph Rucci

Wisdom' and 'greed' sit at opposite ends of the continuum. And interestingly enough, they share the same place on the same continuum as 'life' and 'death.' And the person who is daring enough to be honest with themselves knows exactly which end they share. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win. ~ C. J. Wilson

There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved. ~ Peter L. Berger

Pragmatic political figures are sometimes called "moderate" or "middle of the road" because of their willingness to compromise. But the term "moderate" gives the false impression that there is a linear political continuum, with people distributed along it. The continuum metaphor hides the major role played by moral systems and the fact that pragmatic politicians in America are usually pragmatic versions of either liberals or conservatives. Not ~ George Lakoff

There is a continuum that runs from character to productivity. Who you are and what you believe make a difference to those who look to you for leadership. The values you live will reach the bottom line of your company. ~ Walter Wright

A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity
culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth. ~ Rebecca Solnit

Traditionally, there have been two major strains of motivation (or perceived motivations) in anarchist politics: Duty and Joy. Like any duality, it is easy to fall into the trap of simplistic black and white labels, ignoring the more realistic continuum of grays. Instead, think of these two motivations as the end points on a continuum, illuminating everything in between. ~ Curious George Brigade

Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come into this world except through that gap, that clear space of infinite possibility. ~ Eckhart Tolle

There is an unbroken continuum from the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the mind, from the wisdom of the individual to the wisdom of the race. ~ Rene Dubos

The I Ching tells us that for every ending there is a new beginning. In other words, what appears like a transition isn't really a transition; it's a continuum of existence. If you close your eyes for a moment the room will appear to go away. But does it really? Open your eyes again and the room will still be there. That's all death is. ~ Frederick Lenz

Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious-that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment. ~ Dan Brown

Clothing that placed them somewhere along the hippy/anarchist/punk rock/funked-out artist continuum. ~ Cheryl Strayed

Figure 2.1: The Group Program Continuum ~ Jennifer J. Britton

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin. ~ Douglas Adams

Change is a digital continuum. ~ Pearl Zhu

Ordinary space is a three dimensional continuum, and so is the space of perceived colors. ~ Frank Wilczek

For in the world of the mad, time is not a continuum but a fluid, shifting place, relative to nothing. ~ Lee Smith

The path to success is through a continuum of mundane, unsexy, unexciting, and sometimes difficult daily disciplines compounded over time ~ Darren Hardy

We're all a bit bad. We all have things in our lives that bring us shame and regret. Things that have hurt our souls or hurt the people we love. But 're all a bit good too. i reckon we're mostly good actually. And life is about trying to learn the balance, plot our place on the continuum... We're not just made up of good and bad: we're everything else too. ~ Alice Broadway

Christopher Nolan's 168-minute odyssey through the space-time continuum is stuffed with stuff of bewildering wrongness. ~ Joe Morgenstern

There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results. ~ Nick Saban

Our language places us in a cultural continuum, linking us to the past, and showing our meanings also to future fellow-speakers. ~ Nicholas Ostler

Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream. ~ Salman Rushdie

Unlike the older, more humanly shaped arts, which begin with a seed and accumulate their form organically, photography clips its substance out of an actual continuum. ~ John Updike

I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all. ~ Jeanette Winterson

We all need something to believe in. Without those beliefs we're just floating particles moving through the space time continuum. ~ Solange Nicole

I have found that battling despair does not mean closing my eyes to the enormity of the tasks of effecting change, nor ignoring the strength and the barbarity of the forces aligned against us. It means teaching, surviving and fighting with the most important resource I have, myself, and taking joy in that battle. It means, for me, recognizing the enemy outside, and the enemy within, and knowing that my work is part of a continuum of women's work, of reclaiming this earth and our power, and knowing that this work did not begin with my birth nor will it end with my death. And it means knowing that within this continuum, my life and my love and my work has particular power and meaning relative to others. ~ Audre Lorde

Man is a continuum, a totality and a continuity -
so it cannot be that nothing remains! ~ Pope John Paul II

The business or societal progress is made via a healthy cycle of problem framing and problem-solving continuum. ~ Pearl Zhu

Whole community of millions of living things living out their lives in a kind of benign continuum. ~ Robert M. Pirsig

I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum. ~ Hank Green

A continuum links peaceful law-abiding ideological Muslims at one end and murderous jihadists at the other. ~ Melanie Phillips

But my social circle had dwindled. Hell, all I had was a social dot - just me on a one man continuum. ~ Jeremy Robert Johnson

The manifold of the past, present, and the future all form a single vivacious composition that only exists in the mind's eye as separate isolated stages in a forward spooling continuum of space-time. Eternity and time are distinct qualities. Eternity is a dimension of time, an aspect framed by thinking and action. We exist in the present; we live in the element of time referred to as the here and now. We experience life in the eternity that bookends our life force. I need to realize my separate identity in eternity and at the same time actively cogitate upon my indivisible participation in the interwoven continuum of space-time. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Sex is a continuum. You go through different phases along life's way ... and if you don't, you've been sort of cheated. ~ Gore Vidal

Past beings interact with present ones because life and death are a continuum and expiration entails no loss of vital essence. ~ Michael E. Moseley

The heart knows not of distance, space nor time. It meshes to the fabric of its desire & follows on an immeasurable continuum. ~ Truth Devour

On a digital continuum, you'd have well-defined processes on one end and loosely defined practices on the other end. ~ Pearl Zhu

I cannot stress this enough - if you try to install an HDTV in a non-HDTV compatible house, you may tear the space-time continuum. ~ Ed Helms

In spacetime, all events are baked together: a four-dimensional continuum. Past and future are no more privileged than left and right or up and down. ~ James Gleick

Take all of your wasted honor
Every little past frustration
Take all of your so-called problems,
Better put 'em in quotations ~ John Mayer

Stafford's Hypothesis on The Transference of Existence:
Even if you self-isolated, stood still, and held your breath after traveling into the past, you would still be a pebble diverting the flow of time in some way. The very transference of existence via wormholes, not interaction with past actors or events, creates paradoxes.

Time Transference has three stages:

1. The distance traversed between the origin or starting point of the wormhole and the rip in the Chronosphere (space-time continuum).
2. The transference of biological material through the rip in the Chronosphere without damage to or mutation of the genetic code of the chrono-commuter.
3. Arrival at the endpoint of the time transference - the reconstruction of the chrono-commuter's genetic material and the sealing of the rip in the Chronosphere. ~ Stewart Stafford

Life is entirely unthinkable without any of the creative arts, and they're all a continuum - the force in question is creativity, not its mode of expression. ~ John Darnielle

Everything has yet to be invented. I never say 'green' - I say 'greener.' It's greener simply because this is a continuum of change, improvement and discovery. ~ Yves Behar

Energy is the continuum that unites body and mind. When the two are not as one, life becomes unbalanced. Every breath of air and every sound you hear can be polluted by an existence without promise. ~ C.A. Jamison

The business management is, in essence, the decision management and performance management continuum. ~ Pearl Zhu

Do not allow the adumbrations of Aristotelian logic to prevent you from seeing a vast spectrum of truths; the post-Boolean continuum of shades of grey where we spend most of our lives. ~ Bryant McGill

The dignity we create in the time allotted to us becomes a continuum with the dignity we achieve by the altruism of accepting the necessity of death. ~ Sherwin B. Nuland

We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have never believed in them. ~ Jean Baudrillard

Obviously murder and graffiti are two vastly different crimes. But they are part of the same continuum, and a climate that tolerates one is more likely to tolerate the other. ~ Rudy Giuliani

Obviously there is no such thing as race, and in many ways, sex is a continuum, not a binary. So it doesn't make sense to label people in that way. ~ Gloria Steinem

For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with 'spirit', and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that we, locked into our own disappointingly Cartesian skins, find impossible even to imagine. ~ John Burnside

It was just one push/pull in our twenty-three years on the push/pull continuum. When my own was airless and warm, I would reach out, pat, find that unoccupied part, the cool part of his pillow. ~ Rodney Ross

The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence. ~ Isamu Noguchi

I'm not interested in current events per se, but I am interested in how certain aspects of social or public life that might seem ultra-contemporary actually take their place in a long American continuum. ~ Jonathan Dee

The field (which is what spirit is, a field of pure potentiality) is a continuum of all possible energy and information states that will subsequently manifest themselves as space-time events. ~ Deepak Chopra

The Scientific Revolution had revealed that everyday experience is a narrow slice of a vast continuum of scales from the microscopic to the astronomical, and that our own abode is a rock orbiting a star rather than the center of creation. ~ Steven Pinker

We tend to see life as a continuum, Julie, but really, it's a series of phases, generating a series of different selves. You leave one life behind and start another. And each time, a different version of yourself emerges. ~ Michelle Richmond

The act is a vessel that can hold a continuum of human intentions - a sweet, holy song of flesh and love, the simple, mindless rut of youth, or the darkest violation. It encompasses what we bring to it. Too often people fill it with shame. ~ Rhonda Riley

I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living. ~ Kid Rock

You mentioned ... one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What ... is the other?"
"The other is the composition of the continuum, or: what is space? ~ Neal Stephenson

What we call a person is a concept attached to a stream of consciousness. This stream, just like the person, is without beginning or end. It is a question of an ephemeral continuum that depends on changing causes and conditions. ~ Dalai Lama XIV

It's vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity's continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun. ~ Vanna Bonta

Philotheo: All of this is true, and contradicts nothing we've said, rather to the contrary we've said that there are dissimilar finite parts in one infinity, and have offered considerations how this might be true. Perhaps it might be expressed proportionately, how one might have many continuous parts which form a unity, using the example and simile of liquid mud, which, though water is contiguous with water in every part, and earth with earth, smaller than we can apprehend sensibly, these are called neither discrete nor continuous, not water nor earth, but only a continuum of mud; another might like to say that since the atoms of water are not actually continuous with one another, nor earth with earth, but perhaps water with earth and earth with water; a third might disagree with both and say only mud is continuous with mud. Following these reasons it can be stated that the infinite universe is a continuum, in which discreteness is not created by the interposition of ether between the great celestial bodies, than it would be were air to be mixed and interposed among the dry and watery particles, the difference being only in the consistency of the smallest parts of the mud, beneath the level of our sensible apprehension, or in the size, greatness, and sensibility of the parts that make up our universe: and so, contrary and diverse moving parts cooperate and compose a single immobile continuum, where contraries converge to make up a single whole, achieve single order, and becom ~ Giordano Bruno

How you are perceived is over a continuum of time. So I just keep on working. I've kind of always seen that as the antidote. Just keep on working. ~ Antonio Villaraigosa

As a living creature I am part of two kinds of forces- growth and decay, sprouting and withering, living and dying- and at any given moment of our lives, each one of us is actively located somewhere along a continuum between these two forces. ~ Audre Lorde

I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers. ~ Jeanette Winterson

Nothing is forever, he thought beyond closed eyelids somewhere over Asia Minor. Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream. Or if not unhappiness, then at least melancholy. ~ Salman Rushdie