Past and future entangled, the mediated recollections of Frampton's past functioning also as an index of the future, in that these recollections describe the image (of his past) that await us, the viewer, in our own immediate future -- images which we will then view as the next image is described. This has the effect of clouding our memory of Frampton's account of the still photograph now before us, which in turn is incinerated, and thus is also paradoxically animated; layered chains of pasts and futures, destructions and vivifications, arriving finally at the unseeable horror of the present.
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