Louse-drawing remains static, lying on its back, and dictates its divides - no leg has been maliciously sawn in half. I worried initially about having to succumb to prescribed pictorial sections in mapping the writings - if this was a reduction - but have come to see it as a necessary step in presenting the texts as transparent information. Louse still functions as figure, perhaps more so, in this cartographic state. Though there are size differences in louse-drawing (the abdomen is bigger than each leg), this is not to be thought of as a utilised hierarchy. The option remains there, too, for irrational divides, not following any such cartographic lines, all the way down to the size of a clickable pixel. Still, I find some unity in tracing ongoingness using the lines with which Hooke constructed louse-drawing, via the microscope, some 350 years ago.
List of Illustrations
The main homepage uses Robert Hooke’s drawing of a louse from Micrographia, 1665. All individual sections are headed by a dissected body part of this same drawing.
The images in the margins are dissected legs from Robert Hooke’s drawing of an ant, also from Micrographia, 1665.
The other images included amongst the text are as follows:
fig.1 - Robert Hooke's microscope in Micrographia, 1665. Situated in hair
fig.2 - Great Vowel Shift diagram/caravan, Arieh Frosh, 2019. Situated in leg 2
fig.3 - Counterpart words map of the body louse. Source: World Loanword Database (accessed 17 June 2019). Situated in leg 4
fig.4 - a whole lot slower (Kibble Balance), Arieh Frosh, 2019. Originally published in Le Grand K, Royal College of Art, 2019. Situated in bulbs
fig.5 - Cemetery of Splendour (still), dir: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2015. Situated in abdomen
With great thanks to Jonathan P Watts, and to Sonia Bernac and Bruno for their skilfull work on the website.
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