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collecting the memory of another





installation of discarded diplome found on the street
What is decisive in collecting is that the object is detached from all its original functions in order to enter into the closest conceivable relation to things of the same kind. This relation is the diametric opposite of any utility, and falls into the peculiar category of completeness.
The true method of making things present is to represent them in our space (not to represent ourselves in their space.)
Collectors are beings with tactile instincts.
Collecting is a primal phenomenon of study the student collects knowledge.
Perhaps the most deeply hidden motive of the person who collects can be described this way: he takes up the struggle against dispersion.
Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project