after Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, 1965 — the web edition, in which the chair never arrives.
(nothing)
The chair. A live <chair> element sits in this panel. The browser
knows no such thing, so it renders nothing. HTTP carries no objects — only their rumours.
A photograph of a chair. Drawn fresh on every visit — never the same picture twice.
The image is the only term here that proliferates.
chair/tʃɛə/n.
a separate seat for one person, typically with a back and four legs.
the person in charge of a meeting or organization.
a professorship.
The meaning of the word “chair.” Language is the one thing the web transmits intact.
It also never sat anyone down.