# <time> running from capture 

* -> through digital - time-extending - momentarization*

By [0xself](https://paragraph.com/@0xself) · 2026-01-28

philosophy, time, digital, technology, philosophicalimplications, momentary, timemovement, losttime, memory, capturing, literature, prosa, shortliterarure, capturetime, loop, timesarrow, momentarization, extendingtime

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_There's something about the world only seeming more real when put on a screen._

Once again, I find myself seeing all there is around me more vividly through my phone's camera, than within the lost memory of what my eyes just glanced at; visualizing the incongruence of this momentarity.

\-> a one second long video can seem so incredibly long, if put on another person's screen and played in a loop.

\-> a moment can shrink to such shortness, if investment in capturing the fleeting light of passing days on glowing screens, overpowers experiencing itself.

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\[Sometimes I take a look at the circular clock in my parents' hallway, asking myself, if there is _any_ or _all_ _space_ contained between a second after, and one right before, the small rotating arrow's current position…

Maybe I wouldn't think about capturing the present if I could move forward in time, whilst still returning to the exact same places of past's former times...or maybe the arrow just tries to escape from such burden.\]

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*Originally published on [0xself](https://paragraph.com/@0xself/time-running-from-capture)*