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           TheprecisbeganwithalongholdonacolorstillthatCaseatfirstassumedwasacollageofsomekind,aboy’sfacesnippedfromanotherimageandgluedtoaphotographofapaint-scrawledwall.Darkeyes,epicanthicfoldsobviouslytheresultofsurgery,anangrydustingofacneacrosspalenarrowcheeks.TheHosakareleasedthefreeze;theboymoved,flowingwiththesinistergraceofamimepretendingtobeajunglepredator.Hisbodywasnearlyinvisible,anabstractpatternapproximatingthescribbledbrickworkslidingsmoothlyacrosshistightonepiece.Mimeticpolycarbon.

           CuttoDr.VirginiaRambali,Sociology,NYU,hername,faculty,andschoolpulsingacrossthescreeninpinkalphanumerics.

           `Giventheirpenchantfortheserandomactsofsurrealviolence,’someonesaid,`itmaybedifficultforourviewerstounderstandwhyyoucontinuetoinsistthatthisphenomenonisn’taformofterrorism.’

           Dr.Rambalismiled.`Thereisalwaysapointatwhichtheterroristceasestomanipulatethemediagestalt.Apointatwhichtheviolencemaywellescalate,butbeyondwhichtheterroristhasbecomesymptomaticofthemediagestaltitself.Terrorismasweordinarilyunderstanditisinatelymedia-related.ThePantherModernsdifferfromotherterroristspreciselyintheirdegreeofself-consciousness,intheirawarenessoftheextenttowhichmediadivorcetheactofterrorismfromtheoriginalsociopoliticalintent...’

           `Skipit,’Casesaid.