There is no inquiry that can’t be reduced to an utterance on a scene. The more you singularize the utterance the more you fill out the scene and filling out the scene evokes and invokes other utterances on other scenes. This is the continuation of the work of the ancient scribes and the early modern philologists and archivists, among others. The utterance on the scene can be further reduced to the cited sample. To treat any “thing” as a sample is to ask what it is a sample of, and it’s a sample of all the other things it is “like” in one way or another on innumerable other scenes. It remains a sample for as long as you don’t close off the field of likenesses and when you do close off the field in order to establish same/other distinctions that only creates entire new fields of likeness above and below the threshold any same/other distinction establishes. Presenting a sample is presenting it as cited, as, according to the Online Etymological Dictionary, “summoned” to appear. And every utterance or sample is cited, and is citing citations, which in turn… History is ultimately a project of tracking the chains of citations all the way back to the origin; at least, that is the imaginary guiding historical inquiries. “Citationality” most immediately comes to us as a post-structuralist concept, through the work of Judith Butler but through her citing Derrida’s
The Scene On Which You Find Yourself
The Scene On Which You Find Yourself
The Scene On Which You Find Yourself
There is no inquiry that can’t be reduced to an utterance on a scene. The more you singularize the utterance the more you fill out the scene and filling out the scene evokes and invokes other utterances on other scenes. This is the continuation of the work of the ancient scribes and the early modern philologists and archivists, among others. The utterance on the scene can be further reduced to the cited sample. To treat any “thing” as a sample is to ask what it is a sample of, and it’s a sample of all the other things it is “like” in one way or another on innumerable other scenes. It remains a sample for as long as you don’t close off the field of likenesses and when you do close off the field in order to establish same/other distinctions that only creates entire new fields of likeness above and below the threshold any same/other distinction establishes. Presenting a sample is presenting it as cited, as, according to the Online Etymological Dictionary, “summoned” to appear. And every utterance or sample is cited, and is citing citations, which in turn… History is ultimately a project of tracking the chains of citations all the way back to the origin; at least, that is the imaginary guiding historical inquiries. “Citationality” most immediately comes to us as a post-structuralist concept, through the work of Judith Butler but through her citing Derrida’s