Pynchon and fascism

s~Z keithsz at concentric.net
Thu Jun 5 14:19:30 CDT 2003


>>> We are left with a sense of uncertainty, and some would argue,
persuasively I think, that it is this uncertainty that enables us to review
our own reading strategies, and thence the whole apparatus by which we
negotiate reality.<<<

Yes. Our reading strategies are part of an apparatus that reads everything.
It gets dismissed as navel-gazing for a variety of reasons, but the
apparatus is fair game for investigation as much as that which the apparatus
perceives. Hard, soft, strap-on, battery-operated...to be is to be fucked no
matter how you look at it.




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