- 59

However, in both Freud’s formulation and Lacan’s reformulation, photography is a psychosis, a crisis of reality.

Oh.

Did I say photography? I meant paranoia. Sorry. Freudian slip.

Maya…Maya…Illusion…Illusion…

- 58

Madame devra prendre son tilleul.

- 57

This then, I thought, as I looked round about me, is the representation of history. It requires a falsification of perspective. We, the survivors, see everything from above, see everything at once, and still we do not know how it was…Are we standing on a mountain of death? Is that our ultimate vantage point?

- 56

Of a remain(s)?
Of a remain(s) that would no longer be — neither relic nor remainder [reliquat] — of any operation.

Effluvium.
Lait de deuil.

- 55

…sight at the end of the visible.

- 54

an important new
renewed interest
public discourse
I
in anticipation of further research
international distribution
significant political and aesthetic gesture
am
as theoretical as it is historical
previously under examined
challenged dominant paradigms
yet not theorized
so
theoretical premises and methodology
original contribution
I can’t say it
underlying social and political tendencies
a new way of thinking
ouch

- 53

And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.