Word: linearized
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...first-year housing lottery, the results of which came out yesterday. Although I'm writing this g-train before the fateful morning (yesterday, for me, is actually the day after tomorrow), I know what went on because I've already been there. Time, you see, is anything but linear...
Postmodern, anti-linear decorum suggests that it isn't important to start at the beginning, and chances are you'll arrive in the middle of the sequence. What is important is Hill's coupling of text and video which explores the relationship between space and time, language and reality. These relationships, set forth by Heidegger in the early 20th century, have been severely upset by the advent of electronic media...
Heidegger, Heidegger, and more Heidegger drones on, while video images flash by in lively contrast to the deadpan textual underpinning. Philosophical discourse takes such an incredible amount of concentration and linear, logical thinking, that the flashing images and spatial nature of the cinematic form disrupts Heidegger's text more than they complement it. This brings one of the exhibit's main conflicts to light. We are a society torn between discourses, one written and one visual, and our own delight in the visual is juxtaposed with our own delight in the visual is juxtaposed with our guilt-laden tendency...
After taking the Q.R.R. for the fourth time I've begun looking for linear relationships in everything. Reclining on the futon whilst watching E.R. after my fourth Q.R.R., I started wondering whether there was a strong correlation between E.R.-watchers and pre-meds. Who would be more likely to spend an hour per week in Hollywood's version of the emergency room than Harvard's own M.D.s-to-be...
...were only this simple. Wellman's script is a minefield of abstractions, a barrage of heavy-handed symbolism and non-linear (dis) connections. And where else to witness this fragmented and worn schema of juxtapositions than a junkyard? The mire is realized in James Murdoch's artfully ramshackle set. Littered with couches, barrels, tires and a clothesline, the audience is strewn around the playing space, indistinguishable from the wreckage...