These are not strange and unusual viewpoints.
The experience of disorientation that's key to Mr. Virilio's theory -- the soldier's sense of being hurtled through abrupt changes in landscape, as seen from strange and shifting viewpoints -- finds stunning formal expression here and in the works of the other great innovators of Soviet film.
Hassam's "Rooftops, Pont-Aven, Brittany" (1897), with its aerial viewpoint and strange — for Western painting — flattening of foreground and background, suggests the influence of Japanese prints, and with its violent brushstrokes, perhaps even a hint of Van Gogh.
Instead, Ms. Erdrich has returned to doing what she does best: using multiple viewpoints and strange, surreal tales within tales to conjure up a family's legacy of love, duty and guilt, and to show us how that family's fortunes have both shifted -- and endured -- as its members have abandoned ancient Indian traditions for a modern fast-food existence.
The Pyrenees have both a peculiar position in the Hercynian architecture and a strange evolution if viewed from the viewpoint of the development of orogens.
They look, to most eyes, like a strange mixture of liberal and conservative viewpoints, although they themselves see a strong inner consistency between these views.
That's why it's strange to discuss this from a fashion viewpoint because, really, it's not about fashion.
Just to emphasise the momentary and even delusory nature of this strange effect he painted them from another viewpoint as stately sentinels reflected in water.
It seems strange that there would be such differing viewpoints, but maybe that's what happens when the cultural net expands.
The strange place, in this case, is New York, and the viewpoint belongs to Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and polymath.
But there's a strange silver lining: once you're certain that your viewpoints aren't unassailable, rather than simply afraid this might be the case, it becomes easier to trust your instincts.
