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object passed before the plate. . . . Each picture showed
the object in an isolated phase as arrested by each
camera. (p. 107)
That is to say, the object is translated out of organic or
simultaneous form into a static or pictorial mode. By revolving
a sequence of such static or pictorial spaces at a sufficient
speed, the illusion of organic wholeness, or interplay of spaces,
is created. Thus, the wheel finally becomes the means of
moving our culture away from the machine. But it was by
means of electricity applied to the wheel that the wheel merges
once more with animal form. In fact, the wheel is now an
obsolete form in the electric-missile age. But hypertrophy is the
mark of obsolescence, as we shall see again and again. Just
because wheel is now returning to organic form in the twentieth
century it is quite easy for us to understand how primitive man