Redemption

[ERIC CASSIDY]

> > This is patronising nonsense.
> I'm not sure about "patronising," but I do think "reductive" might 
> describe it. 

I prefer patronising.
> 
> I kind of feel like there may be some clever 
> sense of redemption in _Vineland_, a kind of inventiveness that is called 
> for in light of our situation (media culture, etc.)  Call it "myth," or 
> call it "patronising."  It is too late, anyhow.

The convergence of multi-media technology, market economic systems, 
and desire is precisely the story of GR. The "redemption" of Vineland 
is only possible because Pynchon loses his materialist vision of the 
cosmos, an error that resigns Vineland to the ever growing scrapheap 
of regressive modernist mythic hippy-dippy shit. It's "too late" precisely because
GR describes a cosmic materialist production process--desiring production, 
molecular synthesis--that is today still driving global capitalism. In 
fact, the counterforce of GR, or all of us for whom it is too late, 
simply mis-understand (as does the whole of Vineland) that Capitalism 
is the revolution itself...
> 
> By the way, has anyone noticed how often the phrase "it is too late" 
> appears in the 3 novels of Beckett--_Molloy_, _Malone Dies_, and _The 
> Unnamable_?  In fact, the similarities are staggering.  The mandala 
> structuration, entropic thematic sensibilities, etc.  I know there have 
> been discussions of BEckett and PYnchon.  Can anyone name any 
> PARTICULARLY good pieces on this?  I'd appreciate it.

The best piece to link Beckett and Pynchon (without mentioning 
Pynchon by name) is Gilles Deleuze's ANTI-OEDIPUS. 

> 
> Thanks.
> Bonnie
>