globalization & Pynchon?

[Jane Sweet]

Doug Millison wrote:
> 
> M&D does go into some detail about corporations at the time of the emergence
> of that way of removing the risk of doing business from individual merchants
> and displacing it onto a legal entity.  M&D also links specific corporations
> (East India Company is one of them, I believe; he also discusses the
> chartered corporations that have the right to colonize Maryland and
> Pennsylvania, if I remember correctly; I don't have access to my copy of M&D
> now) to the rape of the areas that have come under the imperial domination
> (and subsequent commercial exploitation by those corporations) of European
> powers and interests. 

Well, when we can have some examples from the book, M&D or
any other Pynchon text we will be able to reply. Unless of
course, one  needs to go ask Pynchon on this to participate
in the discussion here Doug.  


> Jane, I suggest you check with Pynchon re his personal feelings about
> corporations in general and about specific corporations; I don't have any
> insight to share with you along those lines.