ABSTRACT
The resistance of pre-Euclidean common sense to the new boundless vacancy and the infinite stretch of the straight line through space, he writes, was tenacious. Equally, he speculated, shall the modern European Euclidean common sense resist the new spatial conceptions of Relativity – and it may take centuries before authors accept it as a new normal. Stirrings of that new post-Relativity everyday consciousness or commonsense of space and time were, however, already noticeable to some commentators contemporary to Cornford. Both Walter Benjamin and Erwin Panofsky were already noticing change and writing in the 1930s of its appearance in the new media technologies – and in particular in cinema. Barad proposes ‘a posthuman refiguring of the nature of materiality and discursivity and the relationship between them, and a posthuman account of performativity’.
