Oddly, Aristotle inflects both time and change in the direction of deterioration or passing away: “we regard time in itself as destroying rather than producing,” a standpoint which would seem to neglect growth, physis, emergence. But we have to understand that, for the Greeks, change and movement are inextricably intertwined: even decay is by them figured as a kind of movement, and to that degree no doubt we can assume that change is a subset of the topic of motion as such.

Fredric Jameson, Valences of the Dialectic (Verso, 2009) p. 479