VLVL II: "the indispensable (...) Deleuze & Guattari" (97)

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* Taking off from Kerouac's paranoia, Félix Guattari & Gilles "Windowjump" Deleuze 
  do ask us:

  "Isn't it the fate of American literature to transcend borders, to let flow 
  deterritorialized streams, yet then also always to dry them out again by
  forming fascizising, moralizing, puritanical and familialistic territorialities?"

  L'Anti-Oedipe [1972], chapter IV: own translation from page 358 of the German edition - 

  While the question's first part gives a great description of the Rainbow's
  bordertranscending psycholytic qualities, the last words make me think of the
  novel we're currently reading together. "The family as it is constituted in VINELAND
  is both literal and metaphoric", says Katherine Hayles whose distinction between
  'kinship system' and 'snitch system' can be of further use here. To emphasize the
  micro-level of society gives Pynchon possibilities of temperature he did not have 
  in the earlier works. But the price might be undercomplexity --


  KFL +

  

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