So the flatness certainly seems to be gone for good, leaving everyone's favorite philosophical Miffy, newly textured and mosaicized, a lot more sinister & a bit more of a mess, at least in appearance. Media production, expansion of communications networks, introduction and intensification of nondiscursive elements in the information flow, sad this is just a text stream, always wants to be in reference to something... How to align the mirrors so the desires make pretty patterns, will smoke prove necessary after all? Let's introduce interestingly various granularities into the chain of events, have an end to epochs that never even happened & make history sideways, make truth seem an appealing lie. Everybody go listen to 'Funhouse' now, it's got instructions for you.