Mladen Dolar’s ambition has been to operationalize the idea of anamorphosis to span the entire domain of Lacanian thought. Similarly, Jacques-Alain Miller has seen, in the idea of extimity (extimité, the “inside-out” topology), an equally ex-span-sive term. The justification for these claims lies in the way each can be found in the exchanges between Being and Speaking, the necessary in-between status of the subject — the neurotic subject, the one with an unconscious, to be sure — as caught within a permanent Cretan Liar’s Paradox.
My challenge has been to write about anamorphosis as a topology that is specifically orthographic: a means of seeing, within perspectival experience, a “secondary virtuality” that is precisely hidden by the first. Because this project involves many alternative ways of combining terms, sources, and references, there are no neat categories and continual repetition (to new audiences in most cases) of the “rules of the game.”
• The Truman Show: Orthography as a Deep Play Model of Gentrification
• Psychoanalysis and/of Architecture The Structure of Latency in Metaphor
• The Flesh of the World is Virtual
• The Truth of Truth: Metaphor in the Service of the Everyday
• Orthography: Seeing with the Eyes of the Devil
• Lacus Curtius: Il Testimonio, I.i.o.
• Desiccation and Fake Grief: The Strange Case of the Lacus Curtius
• Anamorphosis, the Imaginary, Alchemy
• The Natural Attitude versus The Uncanny
• The Case of the Pink Carnation
• Travel as Stillness–in–Motion
• Psychoanalysis, the Uncanny, and Projective Geometry
• Pronouns and Other Place-Holders
• Sculpture on Stage: A Reading of Rosalind Krauss
• Sculpture on Stage: Obversion, Chance, and the Unconscious of Optics