Cheap Sneakers

It’s later than I wanted it to be. I was on the road back from Charlottesville yesterday. I watched Disco Pig tonight (last night). I liked it though it’s closer to a bed-time story than a full-fledged movie. The characters aren’t fully developed nor is the world in which they live.

I wanted to say something about what I have in store for “Recombinant Media,” post-dissertation, but I’m tired enough to call it a night. I do want at least to say that I can already see how different the book will from the dissertation. Where I saw the dissertation articulating a relationship between the substantial and incorporeal especially insofar as I’m dissatisfied with the interconnection of what Lacan terms the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic Order, I think the book will be less concerned with the interconnection between the real and the symbolic.

Johanna put it nicely when she said there is a difference between the production of a different medium and the representation of such. It’s the fundamental difference between “multimedia” (God save us) and a book about multimedai. Didn’t someone once say, “You can’t get the sound from a story in a magazine?” (BH would kill me for that.)

It doesn’t make sense to hallucinate one’s media.