"As for the radial threads, they are smooth and dry because the spider uses them as a shortcut from which to drop onto its prey and wind it finally into an invisible prison. Indeed, the most surprising fact is that the threads of the web are exactly proportioned to the visual capacity of the eye of the fly, who cannot see them and therefore flies toward death unawares. The two perceptual worlds of the fly and the spider are absolutely uncommunicating, and yet so perfectly in tune that we might say that the original score of the fly, which we can also call its original image or archetype, acts on the that of the spider in such a way that the web the spider weaves is "fly-like." Though the spider can in no way see the Umwelt of the fly the web expresses the paradoxical coincidence of this reciprocal blindness."
Giorgio Agamben, The Open
A sort of modern fable (or warning?) of evolving apperceptions. Benjamin parasites Uexkull on this point. But also a confirmation of the possibility of communication. And further, an elucidation of the hidden ethos of architecture: to produce a significatory snare. Thankfully, we know, something always gets through.
A sort of modern fable (or warning?) of evolving apperceptions. Benjamin parasites Uexkull on this point. But also a confirmation of the possibility of communication. And further, an elucidation of the hidden ethos of architecture: to produce a significatory snare. Thankfully, we know, something always gets through.
