Last week I quit drinking coffee, so I was nearly incapacitated and definitely unable to read Foucault. I’m much better now…my withdrawal symptoms seem to be gone, so I’m back in action!
This chapter makes me think of LoC Subject Headings, particularly authority headings, in a variety of new ways:
“What civilizations and peoples leave us as the [...]
“…the relation of language to painting is an infinite relation. It is not that words are imperfect, or that, when confronted by the visible, they prove insuperably inadequate. Neither can be reduced to the other’s terms: it is in vain that we say what we see; what we see never residesin what we say…And the [...]
“In the midst of this dispersion which it is simultaneously grouping together and spreading out before us, indicated compellingly from every side, is an essential void: the necessary disappearance of that which is its foundation—of the person it resembles and the person in whose eyes it is only a resemblance. This very subject—which is the [...]
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