1) In fact, a work can only take the form of a half-hearted; partial reflection because of what Paul Ricoeur calls its status asbelonging to the social whole which it reflects. On an epistemological level, total representation is impossible: "No social theory can totally reflect what is because it is grounded in what is." Paul Ricoeur, p.238, Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences.
2) See Hugh Kearney's Science and Change for an articulation of the Aristotelian and Pythagorean/Platonic tradition in science.
3) See Peter Novicks: That Noble Dream; The Objectivity Question in the American Historical Profession.Cambridge, 1988
4) Barthes, Roland: Mythologies, pp 65-66
5) Though it might appear initially that the subject aboard the Starship Enterprise is Romantic, he/she/it is not. The subject on the Enterprise lacks the capacity of expression characteristic of the Romantic subject and the whole metaphysics of the separation of the subject into inside and outside that expression would presuppose.
6) And therefore, following Horkheimer and Adorno once more, a figure for which in the oppressed reproduce the oppressor's life along with the conditions of their own oppression in a stunning confirmation of the power structure.
7) see Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition: the polis is defined; sustained by the vita activa: human action constitutes any authentic political drama; drama means that there is a definitive context in which human agency matters.
8) Horkheimer and Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment, p 37
9) Weber, Max: The Sociology of Charismatic Authority, p.248.
10) ibid p 253
11) Zizek, Slavoj: The Sublime Object of Ideology, p 176, my italics.
12) ibid, p 196.
13) Noble, David, America by Design, p xxvi.
14) Foucault, Michel, Discipline and Punish, p57.
15) See Heidegger, Being and Time, and/or Hubert Dreyfus' book Being in the World. For example, p 15, Being in the World, quoting Heidegger on Dasein: "Its ownmost being is such that is has an understanding of that being, and already maintains itself in onw way or another, and always does comport itself somehow, we call 'existence'".
16) The name for Kirk's chair, or throne. Perhaps it is short for Panopti- con?
17) Discipline and Punish, p. 110.
18) see Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, p 311.
19) Another instance of the anxiety concerning the deceptiveness of appearances can be found in the work of Descartes: Descartes, too, worries that deception may reside in the gap between mind and body; e.g. the possibility of machines, masquerading, for example, as men in the Meditations. In the Discourse on Method he cautions that "one doesn't want to have someone take one "for something other than (one is)" (p16).
20) Debord, Guy: Society of the Spectacle. Item 12.
21) Descartes, Rene, Discourse on Method, p 31
22) For discussions on transparency of technicity and everyday things, see, for example, Heidegger's Being and Time, p 96.
23) Chaplin might have been naive in locating the experience of technology in the individual, its quidditas in the instance of man tightening bolts. To partially exculpate him for this naivete ,some of his difficulty may have rested, following Fredric Jameson in the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, in the problems of representation inherent in technology itself: the schism between the eidos of technology and our ability to make it visible cinematographically. However, if representation of the technological was a problem in Chaplin's day, given the increasing ethereality of postmodern technologies, it promises to be far more difficult today.
24) See Heidegger, Being and Time, and/or Hubert Dreyfus' book Being in the World. For example, p 15, Being in the World, quoting Heidegger on Dasein: "Its ownmost being is such that is has an understanding of that being, and already maintains itself in onw way or another, and always does comport itself somehow, we call 'existence'".
25) The name for Kirk's chair, or throne. Perhaps it is short for Panopti- con?
26) Discipline and Punish p. 110.
27) see Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, p 311.
28) Another instance of the anxiety concerning the deceptiveness of appearances can be found in the work of Descartes: Descartes, too, worries that deception may reside in the gap between mind and body; e.g. the possibility of machines, masquerading, for example, as men in the Meditations. In the Discourse on Method he cautions that "one doesn't want to have someone take one "for something other than (one is)" (p16).
29) Baudrillard, Jean: Simulations, p 4.
30) Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition, p77.
31) Rorty, Richard: Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, p 142.
32) Jameson, Fredric. "Cognitive mapping" is one of the major themes of The Geopolitical Aesthetic.