Pynchon mentioned in new Jameson article

[Dave Monroe]

New Left Review 23, September-October 2003

Reflections on William Gibson’s Pattern Recognition: a
contemporary dialectic of style, as the Verne of
cyberspace turns to the branded present and its
nauseas. 
  
FREDRIC JAMESON

FEAR AND LOATHING IN GLOBALIZATION

Has the author of Neuromancer really ‘changed his
style’? Has he even ‘stopped’ writing Science Fiction,
as some old-fashioned critics have put it, thinking
thereby to pay him a compliment? Maybe, on the
contrary, he is moving closer to the ‘cyberpunk’ with
which he is often associated, but which seems more
characteristically developed in the work of his
sometime collaborator Bruce Sterling. In any case, the
representational apparatus of Science Fiction, having
gone through innumerable generations of technological
development and well-nigh viral mutation since the
onset of that movement, is sending back more reliable
information about the contemporary world than an
exhausted realism (or an exhausted modernism either). 

William Gibson, now the author of Pattern Recognition,
has certainly more often illustrated that other
coinage, ‘cyberspace’, and its inner network of global
communication and information, than the object world
of late commodification through which the latest novel
carefully gropes its way....

http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR25706.shtml

Not the PDF as well ...

http://www.newleftreview.net/PDFarticles/NLR25706.pdf

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> FEAR AND LOATHING IN GLOBALIZATION -
> NewLeftReview.net, UK
> <http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR25706.shtml>
> ... In-group style was, I believe, the invention—or
> better still, the discovery—of Thomas Pynchon, as
> early as V (1963), even though Ian Fleming deserves
> a ...

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