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If the answer is, Nothing, then a novel might at least be the proper means for examining that infrathin difference between a mode of narrative that depends on looking and a mode of narrative that depends on listening.
Cahiers de Corey Josh 2010
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Duchamp endorsed the poetic idea of the “infrathin” — sensations or qualities that are outside the five senses, that represent “states between states,” as Kenneth Goldsmith once put it.
TAoN No. 41: Indoor (Bonus) Issue Rob Walker 2020
whichbe commented on the word infrathin
See inframince.
July 7, 2008
klktrk commented on the word infrathin
Duchamp supposedly coined the word (french: <i>inframince</i>) as a "notion" that could not be defined, but could be captured by usage examples, viz.
* the warmth of a seat (which has just/been left) is infrathin
* when the tobacco smoke smells also of the/mouth which exhales it, the two odors/marry by infrathin
* 2 forms cast in/the same mold (?) differ from each other by an infrathin amount.
The last one is actually, to my mind, the best example.
I think Duchamp was being a bit haughty when saying it could not be defined. I think it certainly can be. My proposal would be to define something like this:
noun 1. "the sensation of difference where the difference is too small for our senses to actually have noticed it"
noun 2. " the sensation of two things sharing a similarity, but this physical similarity can not be attributed to any particular sense-able attribute"
noun 3. An ineffable physical similarity or differance. This similarity or differance can also be time-based.
January 29, 2015