ABSTRACT
Social space becomes so contradictory and dense like black holes, it cannot be observed directly, only deduced from the effects it produces; effects that include cinema, architecture, new media and so on. As effects whose spatial 'cause' is occluded, forms like cinema or architecture can no longer be thought of as representations of space; rather, think them as performance, where 'performance' itself is understood in an expanded sense as responding to, working with, and working through elements of a space we have not mastered or understood. The two main characters adopt different affective stances towards the space of information, and perform their secret identities in different ways. First of all, space in the film is not neutral; people disappear in it, or better still it disappears people. Finally, I want to turn to a work where the issues we have been considering-spatial history, new media, spectacle, information-come together, and 'performing space' takes place on a massive scale.
