Roni Horn Aka |
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Text by:
| Hickey, Dave |
ISBN: | 978-3-86930-133-4 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2010 |
Publisher: | Steidl GmbH & Co. OHG
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $60.00 |
Book Description:
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"If language exists it is because below the levels of identities and differences, there is a foundation provided by resemblances, repetitions, and natural criss-crossings. Resemblance, excluded from knowledge since the seventeenth century, still constitutes the outer edge of language: the ring surrounding the domain of that which can be analyzed, reduced to order and known. Discourse dissipates this murmur [of resemblance] but without it we could not speak." Michel...
More Description"If language exists it is because below the levels of identities and differences, there is a foundation provided by resemblances, repetitions, and natural criss-crossings. Resemblance, excluded from knowledge since the seventeenth century, still constitutes the outer edge of language: the ring surrounding the domain of that which can be analyzed, reduced to order and known. Discourse dissipates this murmur [of resemblance] but without it we could not speak."
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things