Atemporal: (adj) Independent of time; timeless.
An excellent article by science fiction author Bruce Sterling on Atemporality for the Creative Artist.
If you have a genuinely avant garde idea, something that’s really new, you should write about it or create about it as if it were being seen twenty years from now. If you want to strip away the sci-fi chrome, the sense of wonder. You want it to be antique before it hits the page or the screen. Imagine that it was twenty years gone into the future. Just approach it from that perspective.
No longer allow yourself to be hypnotized by the sense of technical novelty. Just refuse to go there. Accept that it is already passe’, and create it from that point of view. Try to make it news that stays news.
Futurity was expected, futurity is here now, there goes futurity into the past, so long futurity, thank you for an exciting, fulfilling and worthwhile time.
How can we crack atemporality with video frame-rates?
Here is a video series of Bruce Sterling dicussing atemporality and the passage of time.
