"..the moment of effacement of the boundary between an opaque object and a living body..." --Patricia Cox Miller, The Corporeal Imagination: Signifying the Holy in Late Ancient Christianity
"We must strive moment to moment to practice a taxonomy of different forms of understanding, different forms of change, dependent perhaps upon resemblance and seeming substitutability-- figuration-- rather than on the self-identical category of truth." Gayatri Spivak, Feminism and Critical Theory