They are lingered upon as and in acts of analysis and narration, observation and literary concern, within gatherings that may complicate conventions of genre and form.  They transcend subject/object, interior/exterior distinctions.


Analytical & performative.  He is a real, analytical object of tracking (a person, a suspect), yet also a figure (a symbol/device/conduit in the form of the flaneur, badaud, cruiser, shopper).  

Objective & immersive.  Dwelled upon & dwelled with.  Situated in 1st & 3rd person -- a narrator/commentator who is both in the action (casual stroller) & out of it (purposeful surveiller, equated with the  observational expert & all tracking technology).   Toggles between the casual eye of the stroller & the purposeful scan of the surveiller.

Congealed & Distributed.  He is situated as an actor whose gender/agential/ontological status is contingent (an agent and a street both agents of one another).  This agency is concentrated, yet dispersed in ontological configurations.  


Exterior

The man on the street is seen by a narrator/commentator who stands outside the action as omniscient and/or surveilling (in the capacity of the observational expert or the technological apparatus).   This mode of seeing is purposeful.  

The narrator/commentator understands the man on the street as a real, analytical object of tracking (a person, a suspect) and as a figure (a symbol/device/conduit in the form of the flaneur, badaud, cruiser, shopper).   

At times this narrator/commentator is embodied in the first person:  I am seeing the man on the street;  I am omniscient narrator or surveiller; I am the observational expert or the apparatus.  I am the commentator who narrates or surveys the scene.  

At times this narrator/commentator is described in the third person (he/she/it), from a higher-level omniscient or surveilling position -- a meta surveiller.  

Gender & ontological statuses are contingent.  All are actors positioned on par with one another.  He/She/It has a concentrated agency, yet also dispersed in new ontological configurations.   I am an actor whose gender & ontological status is contingent, on par with all urban actors (the street, etc.).  I have a concentrated agency, yet also dispersed in new ontological configurations (no longer "mine").


Interior

The narrator/commentator shifts into the first person, becoming the man on the street.  This mode of seeing is casual, allowing the audience to linger with me.     

I am in the action as a narrator/commentator, casually strolling.  I am a real, analytical object of tracking (a person, a suspect) and I am also a figure (a symbol/device/conduit in the form of the flaneur, badaud, cruiser, shopper).   

Gender & ontological statuses are contingent.  I am an actor whose gender & ontological status is contingent, on par with all urban actors (the street, etc.).  I have a concentrated agency, yet also dispersed in new ontological configurations (no longer "mine").