Eve Kosofky Sedgwick on texture
 

Michelle Santiago Cortés: As Eve Kosofky Sedgwick writes in the introduction of Touching Feeling: “Texture is not coextensive with any single sense.” Texture, she adds, citing Renu Bora, “tends to be liminally registered ‘on the border of properties of touch and vision’.”
 
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"In short, to pay attention to texture is to 'also enter a conceptual realm that is not shaped by lack nor by commonsensical dualities of subject versus object or means versus ends.'"

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