> Jordan, I keep thinking about your post of 8/11/97 quoting Margaret Morse,
> and the importance placed on the automobile/freeway/shopping mall conjunction
> in creating the "monsters" of consumption culture.
I should have contextualized that a bit more. She's not no much looking
at the car/freeway/mall complex as *responsible* for consumer culture as
such: she's looking at it is a nexus of cultural forms that registers
and produces certain powerful effects *within* contemporary consumer
culture. (But I am glad that it called forth the fabulous image of the
"commodity fetish on hooves"!)
Here is another piece that relates to the mapping thread:
"To contour this new terrain is less to map postmodernity than to
explain why a map per se is virtually impossible to construct. For the
level of iconicity shared by televsion and its analogs is one of common
preconditions and principles of articulation rather than one of
resemblance in shape or the boundedness of contiguous or even
specifiable locations in space. Rather, these analogs share the
*nonspace* and the simultaneous temporalities of *distraction.*"
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