For the concept of the supplement -which here determines that of the representative image- harbors within itself two significations whose cohabitation is as strange as it is necessary. The supplement adds itself, it is a surplus, a plenitude enriching another plenitude, the fullest measure of presence. But the supplement supplements. It adds only to replace...
It intervenes or insinuate itself in-the-place-of.
If it represents and makes an image it is by the anterior default of a presence ...
the sign is always the supplement of the thing itself.
(Taken from "Of Grammatology" book by Jacques Derrida)
It intervenes or insinuate itself in-the-place-of.
If it represents and makes an image it is by the anterior default of a presence ...
the sign is always the supplement of the thing itself.
(Taken from "Of Grammatology" book by Jacques Derrida)