“Stillness is the Move”: On The Speed of Observation

Paradoxically, impossibly, "stillness is the move." Or so says the band Dirty Projectors, in my favorite song on their album Bitte Orca. The oxymoron is, of course, a play on words--how can something be at once still and moving? (Pace physicists, I'm not talking relativity here.) It's a common kind of bon mot, delivered with…