Verbatim quote · defining passage

“Transcendence has us protect the separateness of the object; presencing is interested in the continuity of the scene—the object, then, would tend to devolve into a series of more or less premeditated pretexts for doing so. We keep scenes going by iterating the sign which constitutes it—there are so many ways of doing this that they couldn’t be catalogued in advance; indeed, any iteration only discovers what it is doing in the midst of doing it.”

— Adam Katz, Beginnings in the Middle: Presence and the Infinitesimal · Aug 2009 · GABlog