The prima materia of perception is not the world. The prima materia of perception is memory. As our eyes linger on the object of their gaze, the memory gives way to what is really being seen. The eyes do not travel; they travel with the body. Charles Sanders Peirce established a trichotomy of signs, which Silverstein explains thus: “the…
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Curating the Archive
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