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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