VLVL2 (9): The Past in VL

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Tim Strzechowski schrieb:

> 144.6:  "[Takeshi] had arrived now at the bottom of the strange crater, far below sea level,
> after long detours and a sense of time forever lost. . . ."
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> 
> As KFL states:
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> °°° Vineland is about conflicting efforts to reconstruct the 1960s as an imaginary object --
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> and I wonder if this "sense of time lost forever" doesn't indeed suggest this notion.
> 


 
> In what ways do the characters attempt to "reconstruct the 1960s"?


*** Especially by selling their shit to the next generation -  

 
> Is a reconstruction merely an "imaginary object" in this context?
 

*** Certainly not in a simple psychological sense. That's why I put in the
word 'conflicting'. It's a cultural reconstruction, too. The social conditions and 
borders of the object are themselves essentials of the struggle. So perhaps "boundary
object" would make a better term. "Boundary objects are those objects, that are 
plastic enough to be adaptable across multiple viewpoints, yet maintain continutity
of identity" (Susan Leigh Star: The Structure of Ill-Structured Solutions: Boundary 
Objects and Heterogenous Problem Solving, pp. 37-54, here 37, in Gasser, L./M. N.
Huhns, eds., Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Vol 2, London/San Manteo 1989: 
Pitman/Morgan Kauffmann). And Prairie & Jesaja 2:4, living in the land called 
teenage schizonesia, they have to make their way through this labyrinth of 
interested interpretations while keeping heads up to the sky ...
  
Kai +

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"Carefully they exchanged updates on their broken collectivity, Krishna stepping away
out of the red-orange light from a disabled VW with its battery falling into an 
unreconnoitered darkness, toward a voice she thought was calling her name ... Mirage
shocked into silence, gone back to Arkansas after giving away all her ephemerides, 
reference books, worksheets, even her black-light zodiac posters ... Zipi and Ditzah
off boisterously to a bomb-making commune up in central Oregon, calling, 'Goodbye to 
the land of make-believe,' and hollering, 'Reality Time!' and 'Powder to the People!'

Carefully also, Frenesi raised her eyes to those of her friend" (258f) ...  

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