Meaning of funicity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An inbuilt quality of materials that permanently “remember” their original time and place of creation.
   uncountable
2. The reflection of an object's own history in its current form.
   uncountable

Examples

“For some quark, perhaps, the measure of its funicity is zero.”

“In this grey and lugubrious "history," form is all, and any work of art incorporates traces of its (own) funicity.”

“Our ability to read historical change and transformation in the funicity of things - the very bedrock of our socialization - is a socio-semiotic skill we begin to acquire in infancy, and is refined throughout our lives.”

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