globalization & Pynchon?

[Doug Millison]

Those interests are display.  Still, Pynchon takes care to talk in some
detail about the corporation and its role in the colonial exploitation that
the eponymous M&D serve - he shows how corporations take on a life separate
from the individuals who serve them and the kings and governments that
charter them.  This builds on his indictment (not too strong a word, in my
opinion) in GR of the corporation and the cartels they form, their
responsibility for War, the rape of the Earth, the perversion of basic human
impulses (cf Their colonialization and exploitation of Slothrop's
unconscious impulses - there's that "im"), and in exacerbating human misery
across the board. 

calbert
But bear in mind that as a locus of power, it must co-exist with the 
heavy-weight which gave it birth, the hereditary aristocracy.....and, 
of course, the religio/political powers of the time.....and I suspect 
that this is Ps interest.