Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism

It was a commonplace of criticism in the 1960s that a strict application of symmetry allowed a painter point to the of the canvas and, in so doing, to invoke the internal structure of the picture-object. Thus pointing to the center was made to serve as one of the many blocks in that intricately constructed arch by which the criticism of the last decade sought to connect art to ethics through the aesthetics of acknowledgement. But what does it mean to point to the of a t.v. screen?