VIVIVI

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It is an object that helps to dramatize a basic disjunction, a human condition in which things inevitably seem too late-belated,in fact, because we want things to come before ideas, before theory, before the word, whereas they seem to persist in coming after: as the alternative to ideas, the limit to theory, victims of the word. If thinking the thing, to borrow Heidegger's phrase, feels like an exercise in belatedness, the feel- ing is provoked by our very capacity to imagine that thinking and thingness are distinct.  

-Bill Brown

This is a collective of 'things.'