“Signs permeate
our modern environments, they give an order to a space whilst possessing
an ambiguity that suggests they are illuminating what was present
before but unillumined. They provide a mundane orientation to a
location, building, road, landscape, etc., with material signification
and social imperatives: “give way”; “turn left”;
“no entry”; “dwell”; “employee’s must
wash hand before returning to work” to name but a few. [“dwell”,
found near Birdwell primary school, Bristol. PS. ]. The structures
they give allow us to articulate ourselves, in what would be otherwise
all-dust or a desert. The extant that we articulate ourselves through
these structures is coextensive to the degree that we are constituted
by these structures. They dwell in us, we dwell in and by means
of them.
So, We speak through the signs that litter banality, and we perceive
through the mechanisms. We understand spaces though the articulation
of the dust-world in signs in which we find order in our eyes. See,
we have always already coerced an agreement with the real: we see
by finding order and find order through seeing.
‘human knowledge is in its very essence paranoiac,’ Lacan.
We see and we speak through the welcome these glowing signs that
populate our times. And likewise we know through the grammar of
this system - we build an epistemology from the matrix of correspondence
truths that we have previously agreed to endorse.”
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