Redemption

Chris Stolz cstolz at acs.ucalgary.ca
Fri Mar 24 15:13:13 CST 1995


> 
> ERIC WRITES:
> > 
> > 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...
> 

	Hey-- did you think of using Theory instead of your own
mind yourself, or did you get the idea from somebody else?

chris









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