Whodunits

[Jason Helms]

I ♥ marxists.org. I read most of my first critical theory that way (a la 
an old school hand-me-down palm pilot).

Yeah, makes sense. Pynch is interested in outing IG Farben, not just in 
questioning the nature of language. He walks a thin line, and it's one 
that constantly frustrates me: Can lit fix any social ills or merely 
make them apparent? Heidegger fits in with this same consideration when 
I try to reconcile his life with his philosophy. Perhaps they should 
never be meant to reconcile, though. Just co-exist. I'm not familiar 
with Jodorowsky, but he sounds intriguing. As for the "lesson" of GR, 
I'm again conflicted. I'm sure there is one, and I've certainly taken 
more than a few from it, but I simultaneously feel like the lesson may 
be against codifying any lessons. And no, that doesn't cancel out to 
apathy--it dove tails inside you sharp as knives!

Dave Monroe wrote:
> Well, I think Pynchon doesn't so much NOT care as to
> whodunit, he's more concerned about whodunWHAT. 
> Asking teh right questions, so They DO hav eto worry
> about the answers.  I'm following Petillon et al. on
> this.  Oedipa in her pursuit misses what's in plain
> sight.  You might consider GR in relation to Alejandro
> Jodorowsky's Holy Mountian, both in perogress at teh
> same time, both released in teh same year, both
> featuring grotesquerie, surrealism, social and
> political satire, mysticism, obscurantism, et al., but
> perhaps having teh same "lesson" in the end.   See
> also Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! books, maybe. 
> GR as critique of Brown, Marcuse, polymorphous
> pervesity as politics, a la ...
>
> http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/eros-civilisation/preface.htm
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> But we're STILL dependent on slavery, or something
> very close to it, its just offshore and ill-paid, is
> all.  Check yr tennis shoes, yr morning coffee, et al.
>  And we've our own underpaid, overwooked, permanent
> underclass here at home as well, so ...
>
> Avid fan, wish i was back in school, but ...
>
> Well, may yet still write a little something, so ...
>
> --- Jason Helms <helmstreet at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> I'm reading (kind of re-reading) M&D right now in
>> anticipation of AtD....
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