Verbatim quote · defining passage

“The scene of representation is the sacred space in which the new dimension of the sign originates and is shared and internalized as a cultural memory within a universally maintained history recallable by each individual as the memory of the sign. But this same space is by the same token a potential space of violence.”

— Eric Gans, Minimal Language · Saturday, October 4th, 2014 · Chronicles of Love & Resentment