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His performance is a palimpsest in which you see all the layers of a single life.
The attempts once more to create meaningful national states out of ethnic palimpsests have proven disastrous.
Moreover, by its simplistic narrative it has also seriously misrepresented the palimpsests of structures and things excavated.
Cities have often been likened to palimpsests.
To return to our starting point, does the prevalent image of the palimpsest or layered space sufficiently acknowledge inter-subjectivity?
Slyomovics invokes the idea of a palimpsest, a canvas on which layers of painted realities reveal underlying layers through the dominating, top image.
Inalienable possessions, then, reveal a palimpsest of historical change.
Like memory, archaeological material bears the mark of repetition, as exemplified by the specifically archaeological form of the palimpsest.
What we have is a palimpsest of looks and gazes sometimes taken from context, at other times set among material facts that blunt hermeneutic tools.
