Thursday, September 16, 2004

Lines

Reading Foucault today, I got sloppy with the underlining and found I was marking through whole lines of text.  Then I thought, well, that's okay.  Maybe it's better to simply draw lines through the non-essential bits. Tonight, just going to register a glimpse of my unconventional reading/annotation method:

Everything would be manifest and immediately knowable if the hermeneutics of resemblance and the semiology of signatures coincided without the slightest parallax. But because the similitudes that form the graphics of the world are one 'cog' out of alignment with those that form its discourse, knowledge and the infinite labour it involves find here the space that is proper to them: it is their task to weave their ways across this distance, pursuing an endless zigzag course from resemblance to what it resembles.

Posted by Derek Mueller at September 16, 2004 7:57 PM to Unspecified