In the dialogue I had with the message during my reading I found that it is
indeed very difficult: whatever ideas I tried, I had the sense there was
still a spatial _metaphor_ capturing them. Although by no means necessarily
a LITERAL space, where units of time, events or societal organisation are
converted into a fixed spatial metric... just a means to make invisible
moments visible, and to allow us to move in thought where we can no longer
(or not yet) go in body.
I cannot begin to imagine what freedom from the spatial metaphor would be
like. On the other hand, transforming spatial metaphors from a Cartesian
grid placed literally upon all other domains: THAT I can imagine. Is this
what Naoki Ueno proposes to do, or can he suggest another melody? (i.e. a
metaphor from time)
Eva