resemblance

Charlie Chaplin

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Karl Marx

Rene Descartes

Arthur Schopenhauer

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is a beginning masking the advent of a whole new vital dimension.

Resemblance is a beginning masking the advent of whole new vital dimension. This even applies to mimickry in nature. An insect that mimics a leaf does so not to meld with the vegetable state of its surrounding milieu, but to reenter the higher realm of predatory animal warfare on a new footing. (Massumi 1987 : pdf).

is a link made in the 16th century between signs and what they indicate through which knowledge condemned itself to never knowing anything but the same thing, which could be discovered only at the unattainable end of an endless journey.

By positing resemblance as the link between signs and what they indicate (thus making resemblance both a third force and a sole power, since it resides in both the mark and the content in identical fashion), sixteenth-century knowledge condemned itself to never knowing anything but the same thing, and to knowing that thing only at the unattainable end of an endless journey. (Foucault 'order' 30)

is not alone the fault of the portrait. In some cases, some don't look true to life only because some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.

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