The Counterforce and Underworld

[Richard Romeo]

Though Pynchon brought up the idea of a "counterforce" in GR, we wonder 
today about whether any type of resistance is ultimately futile against 
(insert Them, The...).
Reading Mark Osteen's book on DeLillo, American Magic and Dread, his last 
essay on Underworld does seem to hint at the fact that ultimately out of 
containment, destructive weapons, and the waste they engendered (cause not 
cock) new forms can be gathered from such shit as means for resistance:  
examples are Klara Sax's art project with B-52s, Ismael Munoz's graffiti 
(love that line:  "I'm your own movie, motherfucker" or some such), the 
Watts Tower, ad inf.

Seems to me such positive spins on things were somewhat clouded by the 
malaise in the 70s--only thru today can we use the refuse of the past in 
positive ways, as a means of usurping that which seems to have its tentacles 
everwhere, but also using the processes those usurpers garner at every 
street corner, for the purposes of a true counterforce. But we all need to 
know and why the octupus is what it is, and why it brings so many over to 
the dark side and what keeps us from it.

fwiw...

rich
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