Thoroughly postmodern Pynchon

David Morris fqmorris at hotmail.com
Wed Jun 27 08:21:41 CDT 2001


You're not trying to throw logic and philosophy at Doug, are you?  He's much 
too smart for that.

DM

>From kai:
>
>millison:
> > My copy of V. has a finite number of words and pages. How does that
> > translate into "a never-ending chain
> > of signifiers"?
>
>   you can only make sense of this "finite number of words" because there 
>is that "never-ending chain of signifiers". this is, in fact, the basic 
>structure of any kind of --- "meaning" (according to luhmann a 
>self-transcending processing of information under conditions of the 
>difference of actuality and the - literally - endless sky of 
>possibilities).
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