Mobile Homes: Instant Suburbia or Transportable Slums? Robert Mills French, Jeffrey K. Hadden Social Problems, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Autumn, 1968), pp. 219-226 Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the Society for the Study of Social Problems Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/800007
Also, there is a cookbook called "Instant Gratification" which might be a fun peruse.
Something that is an instant is infinitesimal--that is, it is the shortest possible span of time, as close to zero as there is. This means that it is basically impossible to actually experience or grasp.
Also, we tend to associate the instant with technology. Instant messenger, instant replay, etc. but is important to differentiate the very fast from the instant. Much of what we call instant is in reality very fast.
You know what was more than just very fast? Instant Star, the show on the N. It went hand in hand with Degrassi (I have a little sister), and was all about this Canadian who won some reality show trying to make it but keep it real in the competitive world of kindof punk rocker girl pop music. In Canada.
Ramen - actually takes about 6 minutes if you want to do it right.
I don't know who posted before me, but nothing can actually be instant. Oh! Except the spooky action at a distance, right? Einstein's split...protons? Electrons? Who knows, some particle, you do something to one, same happens to other, etc. I don't think there's a time delay - maybe the only instant thing?
Light's pretty close, though.
I think in literature, the instant usually has to do with slowed-down action scenes, snap judgements of tableaux (no, not tableauchrist) and hunches. Also, ghosts - instant chills.
Commodities, fetishes, souvenirs, relics, rubbish. What theories help us think about things? In this course we will read Victorian travelers on West African "fetish," Michael Taussig on his imagined cocaine museum, Susan Stewart on longing and souvenirs, Freud on shiny noses, Marx on tables, Annette Weiner on the similarities between gift and commodity exchange, Mary Douglas on dirt, D.W. Winnicott on string, and Arjun Appadurai on the idea of the social lives of things. The singularization of things, the ways in which history and memory are stored in real and imagined objects, the commodification of the human body, the animation of the inanimate, utopian recycling, gleaning, found objects as art and craft: we will consider a broad range of theoretical issues in our readings and in projects that put them to quirky use.
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You might be interested in this Jstor article:
Mobile Homes: Instant Suburbia or Transportable Slums?
Robert Mills French, Jeffrey K. Hadden
Social Problems, Vol. 16, No. 2 (Autumn, 1968), pp. 219-226
Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the Society for the Study of Social Problems
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/800007
Also, there is a cookbook called "Instant Gratification" which might be a fun peruse.
-Hollis
Something that is an instant is infinitesimal--that is, it is the shortest possible span of time, as close to zero as there is. This means that it is basically impossible to actually experience or grasp.
Also, we tend to associate the instant with technology. Instant messenger, instant replay, etc. but is important to differentiate the very fast from the instant. Much of what we call instant is in reality very fast.
You know what was more than just very fast? Instant Star, the show on the N. It went hand in hand with Degrassi (I have a little sister), and was all about this Canadian who won some reality show trying to make it but keep it real in the competitive world of kindof punk rocker girl pop music. In Canada.
Ramen - actually takes about 6 minutes if you want to do it right.
I don't know who posted before me, but nothing can actually be instant. Oh! Except the spooky action at a distance, right? Einstein's split...protons? Electrons? Who knows, some particle, you do something to one, same happens to other, etc. I don't think there's a time delay - maybe the only instant thing?
Light's pretty close, though.
I think in literature, the instant usually has to do with slowed-down action scenes, snap judgements of tableaux (no, not tableauchrist) and hunches. Also, ghosts - instant chills.
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