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VOID FILL

REFERENCES

[*] William R. Armstrong, “Protect your Product: The Art and Science of Void Fill”, 29 November 2006.

[•] See discountairpillows.com, isupplyusa.com, productpackagingsupplies.com, amazon.com, and others.

[º] Is it Paris air? The meaning of Marcel Duchamp’s 50 cc of Paris Air (1919) “was rendered even more unstable” when the glass ampoule broke in 1949.

 

[†] Beyond logistics cities’ “utopian scripts of frictionless passage”, find multiple actualities of congestion and failure in Keller Easterling’s Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades. MIT Press, 2005, 100.

 

[∞] Etymology of the English word void: void (adj.) c. 1300, “unoccupied, vacant,” from Anglo-French and Old French voide, viude “empty, vast, wide, hollow, waste, uncultivated, fallow,” as a noun, “opening, hole; loss,” from Latin vocivos “unoccupied, vacant,” related to vacare “be empty,” from PIE *wak-, extended form of root *eue- “to leave, abandon, give out.” Meaning “lacking or wanting” (something) is recorded from early 15c. Meaning “legally invalid, without legal efficacy” is attested from mid-15c.  void (n.) 1610s, “unfilled space, gap,” from void (adj.). Meaning “absolute empty space, vacuum” is from 1727. void (v.) “to clear” (some place, of something), c. 1300, from Anglo-French voider, Old French vuider “to empty, drain; to habandon, evacuate,” from voide; meaning “to deprive (something) of legal validity” is attested from early 14c. Related: Voided; voiding.

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