12018-08-13T21:22:32+00:00Paul A. Harris0462def817acd13db43634107b67e5f0f737f3f122plain2018-08-13T22:37:01+00:00Paul A. Harris0462def817acd13db43634107b67e5f0f737f3f1The term is used in Deleuze's sense of apprenticeship: "to learn is first of all to consider a substance…as if it emitted signs to be deciphered, interpreted…. One becomes a carpenter only by becoming sensitive to the signs of wood" (Gilles Deleuze, _Proust and Signs_. Translated by Richard Howard, Athalone Press, 2000, p. 4).