![Smithson realized, of course, that the very act of textualizing this material was one of building spatiality back into it, of producing those oppositions and differences necessary to open the surface to the intelligibility of reading and the organization of form. He quoted the paleontologist Edwin Colbert saying: “Unless the information gained from the collecting and preparing of fossils is made available through the printed page, assemblage specimens is [sic] essentially a pile of meaningless junk.” It was the conflict between the “junk” and the “text” that seemed to fascinate him.
From A User’s Guide to Entropy by Rosalind Krauss, Published in October 78, MIT Press, Cambridge Mass., 1996 and in Formless: A User’s Guide by Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss, Zone Books, 1997.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyvwslmIFc1qbofjdo1_500.jpg)
Smithson realized, of course, that the very act of textualizing this material was one of building spatiality back into it, of producing those oppositions and differences necessary to open the surface to the intelligibility of reading and the organization of form. He quoted the paleontologist Edwin Colbert saying: “Unless the information gained from the collecting and preparing of fossils is made available through the printed page, assemblage specimens is [sic] essentially a pile of meaningless junk.” It was the conflict between the “junk” and the “text” that seemed to fascinate him.
From A User’s Guide to Entropy by Rosalind Krauss, Published in October 78, MIT Press, Cambridge Mass., 1996 and in Formless: A User’s Guide by Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss, Zone Books, 1997.
