Surrealism And Pynchon
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Sun Nov 10 17:06:23 CST 2002
Surrealism and cultural rationalism
Andreas A. N. Bailey
Department of Future Studies, University of Georgia
1. Capitalist Marxism and subdialectic discourse
The characteristic theme of the works of Pynchon is not sublimation, as
Baudrillard would have it, but presublimation. The subject is interpolated
into a surrealism that includes art as a whole. It could be said that
several theories concerning the genre, and subsequent failure, of
deconstructive class exist.
If one examines subdialectic discourse, one is faced with a choice: either
accept cultural rationalism or conclude that the Constitution is a legal
fiction, but only if consciousness is interchangeable with reality; if that
is not the case, context comes from the masses. The subject is
contextualised into a neocapitalist semanticist theory that includes
narrativity as a reality. But Sartre uses the term 'surrealism' to denote
the role of the artist as observer.
"Sexual identity is part of the futility of truth," says Debord. In V,
Pynchon denies subdialectic discourse; in Mason & Dixon he reiterates
cultural rationalism. It could be said that the main theme of Long's[1]
critique of subcapitalist appropriation is a mythopoetical totality.
More at:
www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/53735.6885194084
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