Coda: Fugitive Ether

The book closes by returning to the image of Shikeith’s “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it,” which opens the introduction. The coda considers the full multimedia installation to reprise fugitive time’s most elemental structuring dialectic: the constant interplay between captivity and prolepsis. It concludes with the speculation that perhaps the persistent anticipatory consciousness that saturates the aesthetics in this study comes from a seemingly undetectable trace of the beyond: some kind of fugitive ether that stretches from the horizon, beckoning followers toward absolution in another world.