syncopathThu, Feb 3, 2011 Allegory is constituted on the principle that, there can be no direct presentation, or transposition, of the perceptual ; therefore, perception itself must become a sign, and the sign must become a text that must be read, deciphered.
The secret is constituted on the condition that no direct discourse is possible, and so communication must take place in a relation to a certain 'absence of a Third'.
The visible has its own way of being read (like the newspaper for Mallarme)
and the legible has its own kind of theater (its theater of reading).
It is precisely the sense of a crypt placed in perception, which is not as much an enclosure of the thing, but rather a process which turns perception itself into an allegory.
Allegory is constituted on the principle that, there can be no direct presentation, or transposition, of the perceptual ; therefore, perception itself must become a sign, and the sign must become a text that must be read, deciphered.
The secret is constituted on the condition that no direct discourse is possible, and so communication must take place in a relation to a certain 'absence of a Third'.
The visible has its own way of being read (like the newspaper for Mallarme)
and the legible has its own kind of theater (its theater of reading).
It is precisely the sense of a crypt placed in perception, which is not as much an enclosure of the thing, but rather a process which turns perception itself into an allegory.
Gilles Deleuze (from the non philosophy)