Yule Log

Speaking of TV, I've always been amazed at the transformation of the device into a fireplace each Christmas. Yet another reminder that content steadfastly refuses to remain content on a TV, as Grant points out ("The Form of Content Delivery"): here something like reference, or even indexicality, brings the device back into the realm of mere depiction, and yet also fills out the space of the gadget (in a way typical of media, yet perhaps ne'er so well expressed) to make it add to the very architecture of your apartment (the transformation remains determined by its place of origin: most New York City apartments don't have fireplaces). Through the looping in particular of the representation, the device is set back into a larger lived space to a radical degree, and one dwells beside it--indeed almost moves through the new space it has created.