The blow-up shatters the mirror of reality; it expose the image’s lack of spatial depth and resolution; it uncovers its essence as a surface, as a play of light and shadow, where light is not longer a metaphor for consciousness but simply a property of matter. Here is unmasked the nothingness of the image and […]

De Palma’s strategies are comparable to the montage effects of postmodern art and writing, seeking to infiltrate the devices by which media rhetoric masks its contradictions. An image or text is a re-reading of other, already given textual fragment such that familiar signifiers are dislocated from their ‘naturalised’ referents and re-motivated towards alternative meaning-effects. Recognition […]