funicity
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An inbuilt quality of materials that permanently “remember” their original time and place of creation.
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For some quark, perhaps, the measure of its funicity is zero.
The reflection of an object's own history in its current form.
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In this grey and lugubrious "history," form is all, and any work of art incorporates traces of its (own) funicity.
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Our ability to read historical change and transformation in the funicity of things - the very bedrock of our socialization - is a socio-semiotic skill we begin to acquire in infancy, and is refined throughout our lives.