第9页 Totality as Conspiracy

... a narrative structure capable of reuniting the minimal basic components: a potentially infinite network, along with a plausible explanation of its invisibility; or in other words: the collective and the epistemological.
- conspiracy allegory; representational dilemmas
- cognitive / allegorical investment in representation
- high/low art, mass culture and postmodern
- collective dimension
Hugo's bird's-eye view of the battle of Waterloo - in Les Miserables
- post-modernity; information technology; computerised media technology
- to explore the new symptomatic narratives from three general directions
1. allegories of object-worlds 
2. individual witness vs collective conspiracy 
3. local items, unrepresentable totality, 1+1>2