great difficulties with prognoses, memories and with regulating of time courses; because it is likely so that we do not have a sense for time and probably not even know what time is. Insofar communication about this is hard for us. I do not want to say that I do not could not remember that I had an appointment here at the exhibition for 7 p.m. Most people do manage to organize an agenda but a large number is overstrained when it comes to centuries and thousands of years. Julian Barbour (The end of time, 1999) states that from a scientific point of view time is an illusion. We need mind constructions to help us imagine time. We need mind constructions to help us imagine time. We use space as metaphor for time because we gained quite a good competence to imagine space through the accomplishments by artists since from 500 years ago. Thus we speak of spaces of time, but when it comes to imagining a very long duration exceeding our life and that of several generations these mind constructions fail to help. It is like that with radio activity where it is about time spans in the range of  eons. I doubt that we are in fact able to imagine thousands of years and millions of years.

Symbols and metaphors of the speed religion A symbol for eternity that would be painted in india ink by a Zen artist in Japan can be found often on the street here. Burn-out - a circle of black rubber rubbed directly onto the asphalt covering by a wheelspinning rear tire when a motorcycle is held with turned handlebar and pulled front brake. Such an event of a ride at full throttle on the spot transfered Ulrike Falke and Carola BahnmŸller on foil and present their copy tilted by 90 degrees on the wall of EINSTELLUNGSRAUM. It is a witness of the vehicle cult which again is a symptom for the irrationality of driving; because at greatest power not to advance one meter is the basic idea of races and our culture of fast locomotion. Car and motorbike races are held at circle-shaped, oval-shaped tracks or tracks shaped by curves. Their most important common attribute is that start and end lay on the same line which leads to winners and losers arriving where they started off. Left behind though are the 'breakdowns' and the 'accident victims'. Not a meter is won with this sacrificial ritual but a paradox of acceleration  becomes obvious: standstill is represented by acceleration. At the end there is circle, a nought: the symbol for eternity. In connection with racecourses one should not overlook that the grit of the reproduction of the emergency lane actually here in

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