Knots of perception

"(...) Serres describes the senses as interconnected in a knot. This is a useful notion for enucleating both the complicated (imbricated or twisted) nature of everyday perception and the embodied 'compacity' of the senses. (Employing the metaphor of the knot takes us away from the model of the text, with its neatly separated, two-dimensional characters, and suggests instead the multi-colored knotted symbol system of the Incas known as 'quipu'...).

Howes, David (ed.), Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader, Berg, Oxford, New York 2005, introduction, p.9