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In a message dated 1/25/02 4:43:31 PM, lycidas2 at earthlink.net writes:

<< After a while, even Pynchon felt compelled to pull himself down off the
pile science and math of books and assert that he was and is only an
author of american fiction. Thomas Moore (an entire book on GR) does a
fairly good job of demonstrating that P has not written scientific
theory disguised as fiction. 
 >>

That's quite a strawman you (or Moore) are putting together: "P has 
not written scientific theory disguised as fiction" Who ever said he
had?

I don't think Pynchon is at war with the sciences, however- maybe the
top brass, but that's another story.

<<Dismissing the idea that there is a direct relationship between science 
and culture, Hayles argues...>>

Science 'is' culture, isn't it? ...At least one of two cultures, and probably
many more? Are the gulfs between them so wide? Certainly the under-
lying assumptions are amenable to a philosophical consideration, and the
hubris of anyone- scientist or critic- who "knows" the truth, or any group
using whatever techniques  to impose "their" vision on the others needs
to be understood on their own terms. That would seem especially true
w/r/t science, which has led to such effective means of control.