Intervalic

But what do I have to be able to do here, to read this passage, to think this passage, to peel away the all too obvious layers we are confronted with, formal layers of the collection of passages, the incorporation of the passages into convolutes, the ongoing pseudo-history of the arcades, and then linguistic layers of informational and symbolic meanings overlapping and co-creating each other? How can we pause to consider these things, to bring them down to earth, but then to see how they function as interpretive moments that themselves sketch out the architecture of the Arcades Project as a whole? Again, as we're aware throughout, these "passages" have their material manifestation in the passages of the arcades themselves, so that the commentary is constantly operating on more than one plane. One of the overriding points of the book is how discursivity and physical reality dialectically shape each other and we can see this both as a criteria for how passages are selected or written but also as an interpretive framework we can read each passage back into.