'In his book The Plurality of Reality published in 1921 Polish logician and painter Leon Chwistek suggested that there are four kinds of mutually independent (and thus presumably non-interfering) realities; of things, as they are perceived by common sense; of physical science; of impressions; and of the imagination. Artistically these are expressed respectively by primitivist, naturalist, impressionist and futurist painting.' [Lesek Kołakowski, Metaphysical Horror (1988: Penguin 2001) 111]
I don't buy the painting angle. But something about this quotation speaks to me; I think because my instinct is to put all four together, and to imagine what sort of Gesamtkunstwerk would result. The answer, it occurs to me, is: science fiction, and that alone.
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And perhaps also the cinema, at least a Platonic Ideal of the Cinema as it could have been?
You're right; I should be more specific. Science fiction cinema; as it might be, La Jétee, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Solaris, Stalker, The Matrix, the lovely Solaris remake.
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