Status Updates From Presence: The Inherence of ...

People do not know what a vug is about. They only know that it is about something. The more that 'something' remains generic, fuzzy, unspecified and cognitively unstable, the more the beholder is entitled to assume the worst - that the bug may be devastatingly powerful.

What all such vuga have in common is that their connotative powers as signifying objects in the perception of the people who behold them stand in an inverted relationship with their denotative powers

Often it appears that people respond to images not principally as objects of aesthetic delectation but, apparently, as if they were other people

...by presence we mean the identity of the image with the thing it depicts, the 'inherence' of the depicted thing in the image, the conflation of the two or the elision of the gap between them.