Affinities - Brian Dillon signage physics and history

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How are images or sentences enlisted in — or suddenly freed from — the construction of our personal and collective mythologies

Affinities - Brian Dillon signage physics and historyWhat do we mean when we claim affinity with an object or picture, or say affinities exist between such things? Affinities is a critical and personal study of a sensation that is not exactly taste, desire, or allyship, but has aspects of all. Approaching this subject via discrete examples, this book is first of all about images that have stayed with the author over many years, or grown in significance during months of pandemic isolation, when the