The self's identity, when mediated by increasing layers of technology, is broken down into increasingly small pieces, so that one has to wrestle the "I" lodged in the past, with the "I" of the now and the "I" of the future. Multiple temporalities merge so one becomes confused within the web of self-references. Likewise, this temporal confusion that technology enables by bringing into view past selves is joined by psychological confusion as one frames one's identity against the "I" of film, the photograph and fictions.
On the reverse, the multiplication of identity is accompanied by the danger of losing one's identity within the structures of technology-one loses one's unique quality as a being. This is exemplified by Mr. Tuttle who merely repeats fragments of what he hears outside their context, so they become essentially meaningless.
Mr. Tuttle, thus, is in a way the lost reference, the metaphor without a context, the body without the spirit.
