hypomnemata
writing
as a material
support for
memory.
It is a copybook, a notebook.
The point is not to pursue the indescribable
not to reveal the hidden
not to say the non-said
but, on the contrary
to collect the already-said.
And this to an end which is nothing less than the constitution of oneself.
to make of the recollection of the fragmentary logos transmitted by teaching, listening or reading -
a means to establish as adequate and as perfect a relationship of oneself to oneself
as possible.
(Michel Foucault)