photography

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

Though by now I'd call this thread "Photography, Phonography, 
Pornography"               

               "... the 'falsity' of Pynchonian pornographies lies
               not in their rituals of dismemberment but in their
               fetishistic reassemblies, not in their cutting up of
               organic (w)holes but in their recomposition of
               inorganic wholes that fetishize the very idea of
               organic wholes.  At the very least, we should be wary
               of endorsing the book's various depictions of
               nostalgia, return, 'Diasporas running backwards' (GR
               737); ideally, we should also be wary of approaching
               Gravity's Rainbow as if fragmentation were a problem
               to be solved by critical intervention ..." (p. 251)

"Interestingly, all formats seem to follow the same path. 
I always say that it's easier to encode than to decode. 
It's only recently that we've been truly able to get off the 
disc everything that was on there. And there's still a lot 
of that going on with digital. . . ." 
Michael Hobson, Absolute Sound February 2007, pg 160