~Transitioning from touch to tache (French for mark, spot, or, for our purposes, stain), we shift from the body producing a trace to the trace producing its own body. “Yes, touch is the painter’s writing, it is the distinguishing mark of...

~In Traité des Sensations, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac’s 1754 treatise on his theory of sensationism, the philosopher...