> Zachary wrote:
>
> > I entertain the notion that the collapse of the
> Frontier, and its
> > consequent internalization into people's inner
> lives, is the
> recurring
> > theme in David Lynch's work.
>
> Hmmm, yes, I can see that. In his work, the promise
> that capitalism, especially US capitalism, has always
> held up clashes (more and more) with reality. This is
> especially apparent in Mulholland Drive, where the
> dream world seems to initially offer respite from
> reality but eventually even that gets invaded. Death
> is the only sanctuary from it all.
>
> H&N argue that there is no longer an OUTSIDE but Lynch
> provides us with one...death. Not the type of exodus,
> using H&N's vocabulary, that I am prepared to take! :)
There are traces of optimism in Lynch's work, hinted at, for example, in the original title of "Twin Peaks", which was "Northwest Passage". They dropped it because there already was a film of that name, and because everybody would have thought it was about Lewis and Clark. The mythology of the Northwest Passage is that of a union between Europe and Asia, Romantic stuff, Shelley-ian, but taken up, in our time, by people like Michel Serres in the form of a union of the sciences, and the New Age crowd, of course. Between the Twin Peaks there resides the Spirit of the Valley, as everyone knows, and academically, Edgar Morin.
But, as David Lynch himself says, solutions are always a let-down. (And this, in turn, is sooo Deleuzian!)
cheers AN