The Simpsons and Philosphy

[Phil Wise]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Monroe" <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 7:18 PM
Subject: The Simpsons and Philosphy


> Also picked up my copy of ...
>
> Irwin, William, Mark T. Conrad and Aeon J. Skoble,
> eds.
>    The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh of Homer.
>    LaSalle, IL: Open Court, 2001.
>
> Kinda sorta, if not underwhelming, less than just
> plain whelming, at any rate, but ... William Irwin
> also edited Seinfeld and Philosophy, though I'm not
> much familiar with that one ...
>
> Anyone familiar with Lance Olson?  Reading his Burnt:
> A Novel (LaGrande, OR: Wordcraft of Oregon, 1996), one
> of those things I picked up cheap after all the
> textbooks were sold for the semester.  Blurbs from
> Paul Di Filippo (The Steampunk Trilogy) and Lewis
> Shiner (Eclipse et al.), William Gobson, Norman
> Spinrad, Jack Womack (just read his Going, Going,
> Gone, in his Ambient series [q.v., esp. Elvissey, much
> gnosticism going, going on]), John Leyner, and one
> Thomas Pynchon.  Seems to have written critical works
> on Wm. Gibson, Lolita, his Tonguing the Zeitgeist was
> a "1994 Philip K. Dick Award Finalist," have something
> else by him I've barely opened called Sewing my Eyes
> Shut.
>
I've read a book he wrote on humour and postmodernism, although I can't
remember its name off the top of my head.  He was thrown in with a class of
"Avant Pop" writers that supposedly led by somebody called Mark Amerika, who
wrote a bunch of pretentious manifestos about the death of postmodernism in
the early 90s.  Other writers in this group included Kathy Acker (too early,
really) and Mark Leyner.

Phil

> Also picked up a copy of Richard Lehan's The City in
> Literature: An Intellectual and Cultural History
> (Berkeley: U of Cal P, 1998), which jbor had mentioned
> here.  Part 5, "After the Waste Land: From Myth to
> Mystery" discusses V., The Crying of Lot 49, and
> Gravity's Rainbow well enough.  Oh, and I got a nifty
> Plastic Man action figure (NOT, of course, to be
> confused with a doll ...) in honor of the birthday boy ...
>
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