VV(11): The Ultimate Shape

[Dave Monroe]

""What this mission was, however, came no clearer to him than the ultimate 
shape of his V-structure" (V., Ch. 8, Sec. iv, p. 226)


Okay, again ...

"Stencil fell outside the pattern." (V., Ch. 8, Sec. iv, p. 225)


"I write four times here, around painting."

Jacques Derrida, The Truth in Painting (Trans. Geoff Bennington and Ian 
McLeod.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1987), p. 9 ...


"Our understanding of ... the experience engendered by television 
programming in general can be considerably expanded if we draw on Foucault's 
notion of the heterotopia.  The best metaphor for the heterotopia is 
provided by that complex and strange yet simple and familiar object, the 
mirror: a 'virtual space' underneath the surface; a place that puts me 'over 
there, where I am not,' in a kind of 'shadow that gives my own visibility to 
myself.'  It is a place both of ultimate reality and ultimate unreality: 
'{I]t makes this place that I occupy at the moment when I look at myself in 
the glass at once absolutely real, connected with all the space that 
surrounds it, and absolutely unreal, since in order to be perceived it has 
to pass through this virtual point which is over there.'  And, finally, most
significantly, it is a place where 'all the other real sites that can be 
found within the culture, are simultaneously represented, contested, and 
inverted.  Places of this kind are outside of all places, even though it may 
be possible to indicate their location in reality' (Foucault 1986, 24).  
Quite obviously, our experience of television is heterotopic ...."

Michael Thomas Carroll, Popular Modernity in America: Experience,
Technology, Mythohistory (Albany: SUNY Press, 2000), p. 23, citing Michel 
Foucault, "Of Other Spaces," Diacritics 16.1 (Spring 1986): 22-7 ...


Hm ...

"'My antennas,' he cried." (V., Ch. 9, Sec. i, p. 231)

"'My little antennas,' he gurgled." (V., Ch. 9, Sec. ii, p. 236)


Anyway ...

"V-structure," "outside the pattern," "quick impersonations" ...

http://www.ista.gov.bc.ca/PLNet/images/tb10.jpg

Can anybody find me a better picture there?  Thanks ...



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