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Category Archives: ICI Press
To the Temple
This is a nondescript sign on a back road of East Anglia, England. But to anyone who has read W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn, this sign might (and it does) announce the site of Alec Girrard’s model of … Continue reading
The Sign of the Masons
The main entrance of the Great Eastern Hotel in London offers a ‘sign’ that is hidden in plain sight. Even though it was left off the hotel’s official floorplan, three bricked in windows act as a visual sign for a … Continue reading
This is Bedlam
A small plaque on the side of the Great Eastern Hotel in London marks the site of the old Bethlehem Hospital. The sign obscures the other name for the site. As W. G. Sebald schooled us in Austerlitz, at this … Continue reading
Max Sebald’s Signature
As a form of written language, the signature is, in theory, a symbolic sign. Its relationship to the person who creates it is arbitrary and based totally on convention and cultural practice. In reality, though, the signature is a … 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: Spectral Evidence – The Photography of Trauma
Baer, Ulrich Spectral Evidence- The Photography of Trauma (2002) LAST LINE: “They open up a future that is not known and, because it is unknown, might yet be changed.” ICI SHELF: Barthes’ Tear ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed … Continue reading
LIBRARY SHELF: La Jetée: ciné-roman
Marker, Chris La Jetée: ciné-roman (1992) FIRST LINE: “This is the story of a man, marked by an image from his childhood.” ICI SHELF: Barthes’ Tear ICI HISTORY: Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (9-11-11)
LIBRARY SHELF: Barthes’ Mourning
Barthes, Roland; Howard, Richard, trans. Mourning Diary: October 26, 19977—September 15, 1979; (2010) FIRST LINE: “First wedding night. But first mourning night”? ICI SHELF: Current Book Project ICI HISTORY: Barthes’ Tear (2010-2012); Today at the ICI-Twitter Feed (7-15-11) NOTES: Barthes … Continue reading
Mnemosyne Atlas
Sebald, Dean and Warburg explore the power of the Archive. Continue reading
