The dialectical image
isn't something we get to, but something we start with. It's the historical
detail that you set out to read, dialectically moving through it. It is the
"historical object of interpretation." The collector brings a
"divinatory gaze." Finally we encounter "times embedded in the
space of things." Really much of what we do in this context is ask if
there is a relevance here for how digital text in fact operates, or how reading
at all operates? What parts of contemporary existence are in fact divinatory?
What historical images are we working with? Are we constantly reading straight
through things?
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