Compossibility

[Dave Monroe]

>From Angela Ndalianis, Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary
Entertainment (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005), Ch. 2,
"Intertextuality, Labyrinths, and the (Neo-)Baroque," pp. 79-107 ...

   "The neo-baroque embraces multiple possibilities, multiple paths
(often from parallel worlds), yet manages to transform them into an
orderly universe.  Evil Dead II, for example, conjures two
multidirectional labyrinths--that of Evil Dead (labyrinth 1) an d Evil
Dead II (labyrinth 2)--yet connects these labyrinths at strategic
points.  The spectator may enter labyrinth 2, then find himself or
herself in labyrinth 1, then back in labyrinth 2. Chaos results only
when the spectator fails to understand the significance of his or her
being shifted between the two labyrinths...." (p. 94)

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http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10721

See ...

Deleuze, Gilles.  The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque.
   Trans. Tom Conley.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1992.

Ch. 5, "Incompossibility, individuality, liberty," pp. 67-85 ...

http://books.google.com/books?id=cK8X2mt01BgC&pg=PA67
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/D/deleuze_fold.html