palimpsest
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Ms. Arno has an eye for these civic palimpsests.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
“I’ve become the type of person,” he says, “who…doesn’t actually get all that annoyed when people talk about psychogeography and palimpsests when all they really mean is that they walked around for a bit.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2023
The Michigan artist’s paintings can resemble palimpsests, reused documents that reveal multiple levels of text or imagery, or explicitly evoke partly erased blackboards.
From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2022
Beyond that, multispectral imaging of palimpsests is opening a rich new seam of ancient texts in archives around the world.
From Scientific American • Oct. 20, 2022
But the most likely case is that interstellar communication will be a kind of palimpsest, like the palimpsests of ancient writers short of papyrus or stone who superimposed their messages on top of preexisting messages.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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