This article focuses on one of central topics of Didi-Hubermanʼs afterthought: the materiality of a work of art and of touch/track. In thismode of vision, the gaze of the object, however familiar, is experienced by the subject as other and prior, strange and heteronomous.
The moment of touch and the aura of presence it encapsulates were radically lost in this palimpsest of retracings.