Random Catching Up: Pokler at the Movies

[andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk]

LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes:

> Just to be technical, it should also  be noted that "persistence of vision'
> is really a meaningless term in regard to the illusion of movement in
> film.  (See Bill Nichols, IDEOLOGY AND THE IMAGE, for a good overview on
> the subject.)

It may be meaningless technically but there is one hell of a play on
words hiding behind that phrase. Just what sort of vision is it
exactly that persists so lingeringly in the scientific mind as to
exclude so successfully so many other possibilities? Because there
*is* a strong visionary element to science, a discipline so firmly
rooted in its dogma (as opposed to the weak roots of most other
disciplines, that is) as to be nigh on immovable.


Andrew Dinn
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And though Earthliness forget you,
To the stilled Earth say:  I flow.
To the rushing water speak:  I am.