ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author examines the temporal plasticity of material registers in relation to extraterrestrial life, both in terms of objects and bodies, and in terms both of the past and the assumed, but undetermined future. Archaic, collective, even unconscious memory, linked to archetypes, is crucial to an understanding of how myths come alive, and how these myths are regarded as beings, physical, fleshy even, in bodies and as bodies. The notion of “extreme” has been used in a variety of contexts, from extreme environments and human practices, to extreme political and social movements, normally branded as such by the state. There is a blatant disregarding of temporal succession, the cornerstone of the ontological realist’s analysis, as well as of dualist divisions of mind and matter, and of time as sequential.
