Globalization and "Globality"

[David Morris]

--- KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote: 
> What has this all to do with Pynchon? Of course, "globalization" was not an 
> issue of GR (perhaps a little in Vineland). He "analyses" there the 
> forerunner of globalization, the "international division of labo(u)r". And 
> the main thing: he analyses the "counterforce in us", THEM as structure and 
> its representation in the unconscious of the people. Of course there are real

> powers, real economic interests, real politics a. s. o. But I think this is 
> secondary, or better: both sides must be described: the real power and its 
> representation in the unconscious. Foucault says that power goes through our 
> bodies and our souls. And the combination of both -structure and psychic 
> representation - is what Pynchon writes about. You cannot devide it.

Jane Thanks you, and so do I.

This is a great description of Pynchon's art.  One might call it "political
illumination," but unless the seeker is willing to see the light shining
through the skin and down to the soul, then in Pynchon she will find only false
"truths."

David Morris

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