This time, his government moved “to protect tradition and Italian cultural typicality” against certain kinds of “inauthentic” food, which Tosi claimed disrupted the city’s “decorum.”

Specimens, for Whitman, weren’t just about typicality and representative capacity; they were a way of learning—relearning—how to see.

Those areas are on city sidewalks and are typicality used by evangelical Christians who regularly picket the conference.