Pynchon's politics, as exhibited in Vineland

[Humberto Torofuerte]

"[...] producing a situation in which a routine sense of paranoia is
paradoxically both no longer necessary, and more vital than ever...."

So, like, which is it? Or, in these times has the justification for one's
paranoia gone the way of Schroedinger's cat?

On 7/31/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> From Peter Knight, Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to
> the X-Files (New York: Routledge, 2000), Chapter 1,
> "Conspiracy/Culture," Section II, "Vineland and
> Visibility," pp. 57-75 ...
>
> "The hidden depths and concelaed realms which might
> encourage countercultural fantasies of a
> conspiratorial 'We-system' (as Gravity's Rainbow
> termed it) have thus all but disappeared in the world
> of Vineland.  Everything has become exposed (to use a
> film metaphor to which the novel itself is highly
> attuned) ....  On this reading, then, the final
> failure of the 1960s underground culture comes about
> not through any of the conspiratorial fanstasies of
> apocalypse which the counterculture predicted, but
> because there is nowhere left to hide.  Everything is
> visible, and everything is connected, producing a
> situation in which a routine sense of paranoia is
> paradoxically both no longer necessary, and more vital
> than ever." (p. 73)
>
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