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                    _PYNCHON NOTES_ 34-35
     _Thomas Pynchon: Schizophrenia and Social Control_
         Guest-edited by Eric Cassidy and Dan O'Hara
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                   Contents of _PN_ 34-35

Thomas Pynchon: Schizophrenia and Social Control
  [Eric Cassidy and Dan O'Hara]                            7
Pynchon's Prophecies of Cyberspace
  Brian Stonehill                                         11
An American Book of the Dead: Media and the
Unconscious in _Vineland_
  John Johnston                                           20
Strangely Attractive: The Topology of Psychic and
Social Space in _Vineland_
  Hanjo Berressem                                         38
On the Line of Flight: Pynchon's Entropy Machine
  Dan O'Hara                                              56
Hyper-Embedded Narration in _Gravity's Rainbow_
  Steven Weisenburger                                     70
Critiquing the Cartel: Anti-Capitalism, Walter Rathenau
and _Gravity's Rainbow_
  Bernard Duyfhuizen                                      88
Cyberotics: Markets, Materialism and Method in
Pynchon and Deleuze
  Eric Cassidy                                           107
"The Hacker We Call God": Transcendent Writing
Machines in Kafka and Pynchon
  David Porush                                           129
Portals in Duchamp and Pynchon
  Martin E. Rosenberg                                    148
Abstracts of the Other Papers Presented at
the Conference                                           176
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Who's Reading Whose Reading? (Review)
  John Mascaro                                           188
Not for Specialists Only (Reviews)
  Terry Caesar                                           192
Postmodernism and the Technological Imagination (Review)
  M. Keith Booker                                        199
Other Books Received                                     205
Notes                                                    206
Bibliography (-1996)                                     209
Contributors                                             223

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