1992-EXTENDED PRESENT
The structure of "spacetime".
For each observer, the "extended present" is the intermediate zone between the past and the future.
Introduction
Intermittence
...connected spaces and socialities...
I found a slim publication that collected some interviews with elderly villagers where it is told of customs and trades that had animated the their life and that of the country . The booklet was dated 1992 more than 30 years ago, written testimony of the declaration of intent to give for defeated that economic and social model that the Valley had been its value, passing to suggestions , models, absolutely known (nothing new in short) and that for more than three centuries have manipulated the Alpine mountain making it functional to citizens who fill the space of the holiday village, the time of the playgrounds and the nature parks. I quote Werner Batzing in his work "The Alps" Editions Bollati Boringhieri year 2005:
Between 1965 and 1985, European industrial countries became services, which implies radical social and cultural transformations, of great importance for the perception of the Alps. Leisure time is completely free from the world of work (that is, it disappears the distinction between working day and Sunday) and brings with it a great harvest of experiences. The postmodern leisure society therefore no longer sees the Alps simply a space for leisure but treats them as one a special sports instrument to arouse bodily experiences. Since all sports activities are oriented in a highly specialized way towards well specific experiences, they require specific environmental conditions and infrastructure.
That’s why today there is no longer the ideal arena for leisure, but every single activity has its own perception of the different value of the Alps as an ideal sports instrument: the collective image of the Alps shatters so in countless fragments that coexist side by side. The images of the Alps here remembered , which so strongly connote their perception in Europe, are therefore images foreign to the Alpine world, which in some measure distorts its reality . The images of the Alps produced by the native population are less spectacular, they lack the uniqueness, the grandeur and the exceptional. The Alps are marked and mentally dominated, in the head, by images processed by foreigners.
