Knight, Conspiracy Culture

[Dave Monroe]

See ...

Rorty, Richard.  Achieving Our Country:
   Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America.
   Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1997.

Not at hand, but Rorty's complaint seems to be that
Pynchon is too pessimistic about the pervasiveness of
power, possibilities for resistance, whatever.  Ditto
Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash), Don DeLillo, off the top
of my head.  These might be of some help here ...

http://www.lehigh.edu/~snd3/diss.html

http://www.groene.nl/1999/41/gb_rorty.html

Although I'm only guessing in the latter case ...

-- Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:
> 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.

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