Nolan's revisiting of Batman is not a re-invention but a reclaiming of the myth, a grand syncresis that draws upon the whole history of the character.

I encountered him almost entirely in the rarefied realms of discourse

confronting digital lacunae where the reconstruction of lost dialogues from online fragments, interlocutors having gone missing, became necessary

In conditions of third (and fourth-order) simulacra

a whole tradition of ludic intervention - passing from the Dadaists into the Surrealist and the Situationists

the explicit de-cathexis of the "nice house, nice family" picture that bourgeois culture is still capable of projecting as ideal

A mis-en-abyme of desire...

the oneiric juxtapositions in Ballad's and Meisel's work

the substitutions and elisions made by the mediated unconscious

Miners were inveigled into identifying with their own terrirory rather than with the industry as whole