君子不器
“The possibility of co-option is inherent in the way Pynchon constructs his critique. He can create color within his text only by naming it, and he can name it only by classifying it as distinct and identifiable hues. Similarly, we can participate in Pynchon’s creation of color only by decoding his color names, which implies…
It’s no secret, I’m working on another Thomas Pynchon paper and it has to do with entropy as a trope for anxieties about modernism. “Thomas Pynchon, Newton’s Second Law, and Entropy” came up in my googles and I’m posting it here for future reference. If you’re interested, this post is the place to begin; followed…
Transatlantic Sixties (2013): “In his first novel, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), trope of entropy, a crucial concept in Shannon’s Mathematical Theory of Communication and in Second Order cybernetics, provides the ground for questioning theories of communication, meaning production and actualization, and technologies of memory” (Iuli 246) Ehem…The Crying of Lot 49 was not…
“In the early ’60s a Yoyodyne executive living near LA and located somewhere in the corporate root-system above supervisor but below vice-president, having found himself, at age 39, automated out of a job. Having been since age 7 rigidly instructed in an eschatology that pointed nowhere but to a presidency and death, trained to do…