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The term palimpsest is sometimes used as a way of conceptualising historic cultural landscapes that have been subject to changes. This paper uses an expanded version of the palimpsest concept (a temporal collage intermingling memories with tangible and intangible elements from different time periods across a range of scales) to focus on a former military site on the Thames Estuary, which, after a period of dereliction, has been developed as a bird reserve. It examines different user interpretations of the present-day landscape in the light of its recent history and demonstrates how the physical traces and artefacts, the topography, memories and the relationship with the surrounding area all play a part in these interpretations. This landscape subverts a chronological reading and extends beyond the physical and temporal boundaries of the site enabling both the expert and non-expert to tell multiple and diverse stories with implications for landscape planning and design.\ud \ud

Verificou-se que nas últimas décadas as mudanças estruturais dos meios de comunicação reconfiguraram os modos dos processos comunicativos, interferindo igualmente na mentalidade dos sujeitos envolvidos. Vivemos uma época de aceleração da temporalidade, em que valores como a simultaneidade, a sensação de imediato, a mistura de tempos no mesmo canal de comunicação, criam uma colagem temporal ou, de outro modo, uma espécie de eterno presente. O nosso estudo tem por objectivo analisar a influência da mediação dos meios de comunicação e de consumo no contexto do romance de Jacinto Lucas Pires, intitulado Perfeitos Milagres. It appears that in recent decades the structural changes of the media have reconfigured modes of communication processes, also affecting the mentality of those involved. We live in an era of accelerated temporality, in which values such as simultaneity, the sense of immediacy, mixing times in the same communication channel, create a temporal collage or on the other hand, a kind of eternal present. Our study aims to examine the influence of media and consumption in the context of the novel by Jacinto Lucas Pires, entitled Perfect Miracles.