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July 15, 2018 at 02:28AM

What I now ‘know’ happened in the interval, in the continuous space of crossing from one way of knowing to another. I can’t decompose my movement/sensation of that crossing into an explanation of it, but I can gesture toward the coordinates of its passage and invite you along…” —Elizabeth Ellsworth, Places of Learning: Media, Architecture, Pedagogy via Instagram http://bit.ly/2NR7m79

July 10, 2018 at 10:16AM

Carved wooden apothecary sign, Europe, 1750-1850.

Shaped in the form of a jester’s head, it is thought that this sign was used to advertise an apothecary’s shop. Before the numbering of street buildings began to become commonplace towards the end of the 1700s, houses and commercial properties were usually known by their name or by the signs that hung over them. In this case, medical products might have been indicated as being available in a particular street, ‘at the sign of the jester’s head. The Wellcome Collection. via Instagram http://bit.ly/2KZKbsz