Hillsborough, New Hampshire
At present, the gesture of searching is providing increasingly compelling evidence that subject and object are always interwoven. A subject is always the subject of some sort of object, and an object is always the object of some sort of subject; there is neither subject without object nor object without subject. This is not the perception of a subject encountering an object. It is an actual relationship from which subjective and objective poles can be abstracted. Subject and object are abstract extrapolations of a concrete relation. The “transcendental mind” and “objectively given world” are ideological concepts extrapolated from actual reality—reality we are and in which we are.
—Vilém Flusser, Gestures