Term
Internal Scene of Representation
used in 10 texts across the archive
“One’s internal scene of representation is the mental space within which we conceive the meaning of language, as when listening to another or reading a book. Such an individual space, however implemented in our nervous system, must have begun to exist in the originary event itself, or in any case in the memory of those who had participated in the event and its early repetitions.”
In use
“One’s internal scene of representation is the mental space within which we conceive the meaning of language, as when listening to another or reading a book.”
“If we are to speak of an internal scene of representation, it must be composed as any scene—by means of a sign of deferral of some appropriation that would, if attempted, destroy the scene.”
“This renunciation of the temptation to occupy internal scene of representation in rebellion against the tyrant in the name of some super-sovereign is what we can call “donating your resentment to the center.” Media and technology are, as Marshall McLuhan noted, extensions of our senses and body.”
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