IVIV (8): Devised Secretly by Fiendish Anarchists

[Dave Monroe]

"... he became aware of a voice down in the street calling his name."
(IV, Ch. 8, p. 113)


"1969 Oldsmobile"

http://inherent-vice.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=File:1969Oldsmobile.jpg

1969 Oldsmobile Delta 88 in Dolemite, Movie, 1975

http://imcdb.org/vehicle_207929-Oldsmobile-Delta-88-1969.html


"a long-ago ocean liner sailing out of San Pedro"

http://www.sanpedro.com/
http://www.portoflosangeles.org/

The Port of Los Angeles is the largest cruise ship center on the West
Coast of the United States and contains three ship berths transporting
over 1 million passengers annually....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Los_Angeles

San Pedro, Wilmington, and Terminal Island are the locations of the
Port of Los Angeles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Pedro,_Los_Angeles,_California


"the parking in Gordita Beach was nonlinear"

   In mathematics, a nonlinear system is a system which is not linear,
that is, a system which does not satisfy the superposition principle,
or whose output is not proportional to its input. Less technically, a
nonlinear system is any problem where the variable(s) to be solved for
cannot be written as a linear combination of independent components. A
nonhomogeneous system, which is linear apart from the presence of a
function of the independent variables, is nonlinear according to a
strict definition, but such systems are usually studied alongside
linear systems, because they can be transformed to a linear system of
multiple variables.
   Nonlinear problems are of interest to physicists and mathematicians
because most physical systems are inherently nonlinear in nature.
Nonlinear equations are difficult to solve and give rise to
interesting phenomena such as chaos. The weather is famously
nonlinear, where simple changes in one part of the system produce
complex effects ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_system

Nonlinear narrative or disrupted narrative is a narrative technique,
sometimes used in literature, film and other narratives, wherein
events are portrayed out of chronological order. It is often used to
mimic the structure and recall of human memory but has been applied
for other reasons as well....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_narrative


"devised secretly by fiendish anarchists"

... the conception of space that has been developed here suggests that
a model of political culture appropriate to our own situation will
necessarily have to raise spatial issues as its fundamental organising
concern. I will therefore provisionally define the aesthetic of this
new (and hypothetical) cultural form as an aesthetic of cognitive
mapping.
   In a classic work, The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch taught us
that the alienated city is above all a space in which people are
unable to map (in their minds) either their own positions or the urban
totality in which they find themselves: grids ... in which none of the
traditional markers (monuments, nodes, natural boundaries, built
perspectives) obtain, are the most obvious examples. Disalienation in
the traditional city, then, involves the practical reconquest of a
sense of place and the construction or reconstruction of an
articulated ensemble which can be retained in memory and which the
individual subject can map and remap along the moments of mobile,
alternative trajectories.... The cognitive map is not exactly mimetic
in that older sense; indeed, the theoretical issues it poses allow us
to renew the analysis of representation on a higher and much more
complex level.
   There is, for one thing, a most interesting convergence between the
empirical problems studied by Lynch in terms of city space and the
great Althusserian (and Lacanian) redefinition of ideology as “the
representation of the subject’s Imaginary relationship to his or her
Real conditions of existence.” Surely this is exactly what the
cognitive map is called upon to do in the narrower framework of daily
life in the physical city: to enable a situational representation on
the part of the individual subject to that vaster and properly
unrepresentable totality which is the ensemble of society’s structures
as a whole.

[...]

... the Althusserian concept now allows us to rethink these
specialised geographical and cartographic issues in terms of social
space – in terms, for example, of social class and national or
international context, in terms of the ways in which we all
necessarily also cognitively map our individual social relationship to
local, national, and international class realities. Yet to reformulate
the problem in this way is also to come starkly up against those very
difficulties in mapping which are posed in heightened and original
ways by that very global space of the postmodernist or multinational
moment which has been under discussion here
   The second point is that a return to the Lacanian underpinnings of
Althusser’s theory can afford some useful and suggestive
methodological enrichments.... What is affirmed is not that we cannot
know the world and its totality in some abstract or “scientific”
way....
   Our digression on cartography, however, with its final revelation
of a properly representational dialectic of the codes and capacities
of individual languages or media, reminds us that what has until now
been omitted was the dimension of the Lacanian Symbolic itself.
   An aesthetic of cognitive mapping – a pedagogical political culture
which seeks to endow the individual subject with some new heightened
sense of its place in the global system – will necessarily have to
respect this now enormously complex representational dialectic and
invent radically new forms in order to do it justice .... The
political form of postmodernism, if there ever is any, will have as
its vocation the invention and projection of a global cognitive
mapping, on a social as well as a spatial scale.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/jameson.htm

Lynch, Kevin.  The Image of the City.
   Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1960.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=4065
http://books.google.com/books?id=_phRPWsSpAgC


"Beachfront Drive"

Beachfront Dr, Solana Beach, San Diego, CA 92075

http://maps.google.com/


Redondo

http://www.redondo.org/default.asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redondo_Beach,_California