Thoroughly postmodern Pynchon

[Dave Monroe]

Without exactly disagreeing here (think, however,
Derrida, Kristeva, Foucault 1966-67 as well; and note
that the structuralism to poststructuralism
distinction is largely an American-made one, the
French apparently see more of a continuity there), but
while I'm cleaning out my mailbox before Yahoo! tries
to charge me for storage space or something, can't
help but think here of N. Katherine Hayles noting the
irony of James Gleick's anything-but-chaos-theoretical
account of the development of chaos theory, i.e., in
writing a history of a nonlinear,
nigh-unto-posthumanistic field, Gleick writes a
standard, linear account of great men making great
events.  See ...

Gleick, James.  Chaos: The Making of a New Science.
   New York: Penguin, 1987.

Hayles, N. Katherine. Chaos Bound: Orderly
   Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science.
   Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1990.  

And on the history of post/structuralism ...

Dosse, Francois.  The History of Structuralism.
   2 vols.  Trans. Deborah Glassmann.  Minneapolis:
   U of Minnesota P, 1997.

Rapaport, Herman.  The Theory Mess: Deconstruction
   in Eclipse.  New York: Columbia UP, 2001.

http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/D/dosse_hist.cont.1.html

http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/D/dosse_hist.cont.2.html

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rbarthes.htm

http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/courses/60A/handouts/derrida1.html#jddates

And here's a few things that turned up along the way
which might be of use in some capacity to someone or
another here as well, so ...

http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/pmafim/alltime.htm

http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/courses/60A/handouts/pharmacy.html

I'd recommend that last one for anybody with questions
about recent invocations of Derrida, deconstruction
here ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> In the field of semiotics/semiology it was Roland
> Barthes who, almost
> singlehandedly, effected the shift from
> structuralism to post-structuralism
> in a couple of works written in the period 1968-1970
> (after the Paris
> Evenements: there *was* a political component to it
> as well).


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