Actualism and Vineland

[Terrance]

In my work I borrow the terms and concepts, both from Heisenberg and
Strehle, to
propose a different perspective of representation in Pynchon's novels. I
take Vineland as corpus, but all the others would accept the
proposition, in which the modal paradigm is the one of the
Thermodynamics, and the representation put forth would mirror all the
Scientific Models (Black, Hesse) idealized for understanding the
dogmatic principles of
energy: Maxwell's Demon, Demon of the Second Kind (Hayles, 1990),
Energetic Closed
System, Communicational Closed System, Entropy as Noise, Entropy as
Energy Value,
Entropy in Communication, Negentropy, etc.

http://www.nwe.ufl.edu/sls/abstracts/brandao.html

Did I mention that Brandão's (not this guy) novel _Zero_ has been
translated by Ellen Watson and will be available soon? 

http://www.centerforbookculture.org/dalkey/backlist/brandao.html