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摘要

When pastoralism is trapped by Chaosmosis, this increases the schizoid negotiation of double belonging and double membership, simultaneously framed by local instructions on 'living together' and, at the same time, a furious need to escape, to anywhere, similar to Dan Simmons's 'Transdoor', opening a double window between the 'here, but...' and the 'but elsewhere', to escape from the stuttering of the local forces of permanencies and immobility seeking to conserve a supposed 'authenticity' - that is, the existing situation -regulated by rules and policies ... to stop time ... a kind of revived Puritanism driven by society-friendly standards for 'good behaviour' and phony eco-friendly attitudes, moralistic totalising scrutiny, recipes for organic health food and over-moisturised soap for a perfect body in the ideal village, like the Truman Show, and in escaping all that, to fulfil irreducible needs like reaching, touching the forbidden, jumping through the only windows that authorise objectionable behaviour in the multiple infra-zones of the doors in electronic machinery (socialising, virtualising, fictionalising, pornoising, criminalising, and gaming the game) ... the legitimate need to HOPEFULLY be somebody else, the recognition of a contradictory, Siamese dualism, a symmetrical antagonism between the physical hoax of sedentary statements and the illusion of dematerialised nomadism, a permanent schizoid contingency, naturally intertwined.