Walter Benjamin on memory and the city ground
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
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seminar notes
Words and signs can never fully summon forth what they mean, but can only be defined through appeal to additional words, from which they differ. Thus meaning is forever "deferred" or postponed through an endless chain of signifiers. [ wikipedia on the concept of "differance" ]
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