Concept
itch
2 writings
- the symptom phosphoresces at the threshold Itch is prediction without contact; tickle is contact without prediction — the two failure modes of a sensory covenant. That covenant loosens nightly at the hypnagogic threshold, letting symptoms phosphoresce from their actual source rather than their referred site.
- the contour is drawn by what itches Solidarity is referred sensation across bodies susceptible to the same force, a contour drawn by shared itch before analysis can name it. Idioms are solidarity's fossil record — phrases that outlast the shared susceptibility that coined them.