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Click on a theme in RHIZOMES to see how disparate parts of the ICI archive are joined together around a fleeting thought or by a slip of the eye or the shutter. Click on a subject in ICI CONNECTIONS to see how recurring ICI concerns coalesce around recurring themes or click on a place in the ICI ARCHIVES to see the raw material of our collections. TAGs below each post reveal hidden relationships between objects, thoughts, and interpretations. This is the place of laboratory research and play. -MORE-RHIZOMES
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Category Archives: Dust
LIBRARY SHELF: Yves Klein
Restany, Pierre Yves Klein: Fire at the Heart of the Void (1992) LAST LINE: “Thus we will ourselves be fire.” ICI SHELF: Artist Monograhs ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (04-11-12)
This Could Be a Place of Historical Significance
In 1980, Braco Dimitrijević built an engraved slab into the pavement outside the Cathedral in Cologne, Germany. This photo was taken in January of 1992. Dimitrijević’s critique of history relies not only on language, the usual fodder of sign systems, … Continue reading
The Ur-Sign: a graveyard in East Anglia
The Greek word for ‘sign’ is sema, which is also the word for ‘grave.’ For the Greeks the grave was the ur-sign of signification for it ‘stood for’ what it ‘stood in.’ The sema points to something only present through … Continue reading
LIBRARY SHELF: Remembrance of Things Past Volume I
Proust, Marcel Remembrance of Things Past Vol. 1 (1982) FIRST LINE: “For a long time I used to go to bed early.” ICI SHELF: Fiction ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (12-15-11)
LIBRARY SHELF: To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
Guilbert, Herve To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life (1990) LAST LINE: “At last my arms and legs are once again as slender as they were when I was a child.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at … Continue reading
LIBRARY SHELF: Melancholia and Moralism
Crimp, Douglas Melancholia and Moralism (2002) FIRST LINE: “I assert to begin that ‘disease’ does not exist.” ICI SHELF: AIDS ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (11-08-11)
Sebald’s photo archive
These pages, that represent the 385 images from W. G. Sebald’s four published prose fictions, jump-started our 5-year long study of the late author’s work. By attempting to bring the pictures back to their pre-publication state where they existed only … Continue reading
Mundaneum
The telegraph room at the Mundaneum circa 1930, Paul Otlet’s ambitious project to create a master bibliography of all the world’s published knowledge. His interest in collecting magazines, journals, photographs, posters and all kinds of ephemera and not just books … Continue reading
