GRGR(19) - Pynchonian Pornography

[Lycidas at worldnet.att.net]

A fine essay, I thought I had posted it a while back. 

David Morris wrote:
> 
> >From a hypertext essay called:
> 
> Institutions, Individuals, and Information
> Technology's Mediation of the Body
> A hypermedia essay by Rob Callahan.
> 
> http://www.2street.com/cyborg/porn.htm
> 
> "In the novel Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon uses
> the term "pornography" to denote modes of
> representation and reproduction which fragment
> continuous experience into discrete, quantifiable,
> replicable units "

AND reversible! This goes to the various notions of Time in
GR.  "Pornography" in GR has several meanings. Callahan
identifies the most important one--the pornography of the
System that defies the "continuous experience" of life, cuts
it up into fragments, finite time, photgraphs and films, and
reproduces it as a quantifiable, replicable and REVERSABLE
Pronography. This is associated with the conterfeiting
german mind and represented in a plethora of symbols,
metaphors (mostly scientific, mathmatical, photographic),
and allusions (Leibniz, for example) and these Pornographies
are extended from scientific, mathmatical and photographic
concepts to human lives (even the soul) and indeed to life
itself.