Lynd: Science, Narrative and Agency in GR

[Glenn Scheper]

> If anyone would like a pdf version of the essay ...
Jbor, I'd love one!
My new surf4me tool turned up only bibliographies of it.

> Abstract Lynd critiques Thomas Pynchon's novel _Gravity's
> Rainbow_,
> focusing primarily on how agency and the subject are
> imagined in relation to scientific discourse,
> and on the role that narrative might usefully play as a
> significant,
> and perhaps necessary component in theorizations of agency
> and subject relations.
> Among other things,
> she opines that the novel suggests the capacity of
> narrative to represent and produce an acting self,
> or at least to magnify certain crucial moments of awareness
> that disrupt the predictable and make action imaginable.

So is this like the phenomenon that I attest, how post-acts
of autoeroticism have a prior effect, produce a step-change
in the world, that make one say, Wow, that was a step-change
which is clearly due to something I will later act-meditate?

Since such a sliver of humanity know these things, it is all
excluded from a LCD of peer-repeatable scientific discourse.

Since it modifies one's own past, it is like a narrative act,
in uni-verse in which are all actors, but most are powerless.

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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