Melley, Empire of Conspiracy

[Dave Monroe]

>From Timothy Melley, Empire of Conspiracy: The Culture
of Paranoia in Postwar America (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
UP, 2000), Ch. 2, '"Bodies Incorporated," pp. 81-106
...

.. issues of bodily control and threatened individual
autonomy in Gravity's Rainbow have an intimate
connection to interpretive questions debated in recent
cultural theory. (86)

... these competing methodologies function as elements
of a single strategy; first a secret appears, then the
two rival discursive approaches revolve around this
central secret in apparent investigative competition,
while, in fact, each requires and reinforces the other
just as much as it requires that the secret remain a
secret.  And what is significant about the central
secret in Gravity's Rainbow  ... is not only that it
generates uneasiness about agency or signification,
but that it's a sexual secret.  (91)

... will perhaps elaborate on Melley's behalf if/when
i get a chance/motive/reason.  But y'all really should
take a look at this one ...


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