mashatupitsyn:"What is seeing if not a deferred touch? But what is a deferred touch if not a...

mashatupitsyn:

"What is seeing if not a deferred touch? But what is a deferred touch if not a touching that sharpens or concentrates without reserve, up to a necessary excess, the point, the tip, and the instant through which the touch detaches itself from what it touches, at the very moment when it touches it? Without this detachment, without this recoil or retreat, the touch would no longer be what it is, and would no longer do what it does (or it would not let itelf do what it lets itself do). It would begin to reify itself in a grip, in an adhesion or a sticking, indeed, in an agglutination that would grasp the touch in the thing and the thing within it, matching and appropriating the one to the other and then the one in the other. There would be no identification, fixation, property, immobility. ‘Do not hold me back’ amounts to saying ‘Touch me with a real touch, one that is restrained, nonappropriating and nonidentifying.’ Caress me, don’t touch me."

-Jean-Luc Nancy, Noli me tangere: On the Raising of the Body

"Touch me with a real touch"