1. The complete texts of the Rodchenko/Kushner exchange may be found in Rosalind Sartorti and Henning Rogge, Sowjetische Fotografie 1928–1932, Carl Hanser, Munich, 1975.
2. Note Lacan: ‘I do not think that one is dealing with the negation of the subject anywhere, at least in the field vaguely defined by this label. One is dealing with the dependency of the subject, which is extremely different; and more specifically, with the return to Freud, of the dependency of the subject vis-à-vis something really elementary and which we have attempted to isolate under the term of “signifier”’ (Discussion of M. Foucault, ‘What is an Author’, Screen, vol. 20, no. 1, Spring 1979, p. 33
3. Stephen Heath, ‘Notes on Suture’, Screen, vol. 18, no. 4, Winter 1977–8, p. 69.
4. O. Mannoni, ‘Je sais bien, mais quand même’, in Clefs pour l’imaginaire ou l’autre scène, Editions Seuil, Paris, 1969, p. 12.
5. C. Metz, ‘Notes towards a Phenomenology of the Narrative’, in Film Language, Oxford University Press, New York, 1944, p. 20.