In an era where digital art seems to further homogenize media, Krauss’s argument for "recursive" invention provides a pathway for artists to create specific, meaningful work rather than empty content.
Lacan argued that a letter always reaches its destination. He used the story of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Purloined Letter” to suggest that meaning is not fixed but is generated by the structure of signifiers. Krauss adapts this to art. She claims that a medium works like a postal system: it establishes a circuit, a channel of communication that includes the possibility of noise, delay, return, and interception. rosalind krauss reinventing the medium pdf