Knight, Conspiracy Culture

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Dave Monroe wrote:

> And Knight notes that "in The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times (1984 ...),
> Christopher Lasch accuses Pynchon's novels of 'hiding the obvious bhind a veil of obscurity'
> (159)."  My point, I think,has been, roughly, that the "obvious" has not been all too
> particularly "hidden," and that any so-called "veil of obscurity" might well be a point
> of/under critique ...

It is only second-hand knowledge, but I think Richard Rorty has roughly the same objections to
Pynchon (and to Foucault) as Lasch.

Thomas