A figure on a background, is the simplest sense-given available to us, it is the very definition of the phenomenon of perception. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The body is the Figure, or rather the material of the Figure. Above all the material of the Figure is not to be confused with the material structure in space, which is separate from this. The body is a Figure, not structure. — Gilles Deleuze
This article was published on Jun 18, 2010