group query

[dpknauss at unity.ncsu.edu]

Has anyone read Katherine N. Hayles' THE COSMIC WEB: Scientific Field 
Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century? This is a pretty 
good book which explains field theory (as opposed to viewing the universe 
as a structure in terms of particles) and how this sort of 
holistic/interconnectedness kind of thinking has revolutionized physics.  
The main thrust of the book however is its use of the field concept to 
explore Pirsig, Lawrence, Borges, Nabokov and Pynchon (GR gets the big 
fat ending chapter).

I also found the Mind's I (a classic by Hostadter and Dennet) a good 
source of material on the widely ranging implications of modern physics 
in other fields.  It got me intrigued with the possibilities of 
interpreting Pynchon (and Quentin Tarantino at the time) and Borges and 
James Joyce according to the conceptual implications of quantum physics 
and stuff like field theory.  Studies have probably been done in this, I 
was wondering if anyone could refer some....I also interested in finding 
out if Tarantino was ever influenced by Pynchon or Borges. They seem to 
share many common ideas.  its pretty ironic that discoveries in physics 
have affected pop culture and literature before the other sciences have 
decided to get with it since they seem the logical first...

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