While any element of an antecedent, (or ‘souvenir’) retains the history of substance in its decontextualized state, it also retains a parallel history of the process of decontextualization, as any open-ended recursive system also processes interference, which ultimately becomes inseparable from the representative agent itself. This not only modifies the agent, but also the collective antecedent, in its full context, as a resultant of its constituents. The agent, then, destroys the meaning of the antecedent, and replaces it with itself, as a sort of self- referential iconoclast. So, dear God, what has your souvenir done???
