funkentelechy

[peter culley]

As a mostly fascinated/baffled onlurker I've been grateful for the recent Simpsons/rap/zappa threads--something I know about!  My adolescent first readings of V and Gravity's Rainbow occurred during the mid 70's (the Bantams fitted nicely into one's pockets and were thus always accessible) and is linked very clearly in my own memory to the Parliament/Funkadelic records of that era, especially the 1977 "Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome" a 45-minute survival course for the next 25 yrs, as important for me as GR and linked in all kinds of ways.  George Clinton's analyses of mass media, drugs, and racial politics seem to me more advanced that Baudrillard, let alone Zappa, a village explainer if ever there was one.  And, most importantly, distinctly Pynchonesque in his use of motifs, codes, "unintelligability", etc, etc,  Has anybody written, or even thought about this connection?  I hate to think my youth was ill-spent.
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