mesh

en creux

The structure which controls the concrete existence of men, i.e. which informs the lived ideology of the relations between men and objects and between objects and men, this structure, as a structure, can never be depicted by its presence, in person, positively, in relief, but only by traces and effects, negatively, by indices of absence, in intaglio (en creux)

althusser / cremonini

prosopography

The word is drawn from the figure prosopoeia in classical rhetoric, introduced by Quintilian, in which an absent or imagined person is figured forth—the "face created" as the Greek suggests—in words, as if present.

Central to prosopography are the concepts of individuals and groups - or networks.

The "principles which make it a distinct form of historical science" are: "that every piece of historical data should, as far as possible, be related to an identifiable historical person, that multiple identities should not be confused, single identities should not be multiplied and collective identities should always be defined in terms of connections between individuals".
[Magdalino]

moa diorama

there's nothing natural in the natural history museum Robert Smithson attr.