Moskenstraumen

The art historian thinks with the mind of a scholastic. Typologies. Recensions. The world seen through the old men's eyes, looking with that fixedly backward stare that intends to find ladders of precedent, ladders by which of means to climb, slowly, painfully, into the experience of the present. Into a present that will already have been stabilized by already have been predicted.

- Rosalind E. Krauss, "The optical unconscious", 1993