The helicopter embodies postmodernist space by refusing static representation.

Evidence

In this new machine, which does not, like the older modernist machinery of the locomotive or the airplane, represent motion, but which can only be represented in motion, something of the mystery of the new postmodernist space is concentrated. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 149

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes modernist representation of motion from postmodernist space that only exists in motion — a useful clean definition of postmodern spatiality.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s cognitive-map goal: the helicopter as an object you can’t stand outside of parallels the difficulty of mapping one’s own position in a system you’re always inside.