ABSTRACT
As we have seen, a traditional representational approach, both in the arts and sciences, relies on a series of binaries that keep the subject and object of representation separate as well as unquestioned, assuming that their respective spaces already exist and that representation is an instrument with a constitutive and pre-assigned function that the subject can pick up, as if it were from a toolbox, whenever the need arises. In this case, representation would work at bridging, so to speak, the voids of the subject/object gap, creating a series of analogical correspondences that go back and forth between the two opposed realms of signs and things, as a procedure that variably reflects or transcends the distance that it, nonetheless, contributes to keeping open. However, it has been precisely this idea of space as lying between the subject and the object as a separating plane, rather than as passing through them as a relating field, that has strengthened the toxic equation of representation and spatialisation.
