sinuosities and obtusities into the uniformities of the visual 
culture of the Western world. It is this uniform, connected, and 
visual order that we still use as the norm of “rational” living. In 
our electric age of instant and nonvisual forms of interrelation, 
therefore, we find ourselves at a loss to define the “rational,” if 
only because we never noticed whence it came in the first place.