IVIV recommended reading: McLuhan

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Doug Millison<dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:

>  Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan
>  The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhan

>From David Seed, The Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon (London:
MacMillan, 1988), pp. 240-3

"When I wrote V. I was thinking of the 1904 campaign as a sort of
dress rehearsal for what later happened to the Jews in the 30s and
40s. Which is hardly profound; it must occur to anybody who gets into
it even as superficially as I did. But since reading McLuhan
especially, and stuff here and there on comparative religion, I feel
now the thing goes much deeper. […] I feel that the number done on the
Herero head by the Germans is the same number done on the American
Indian head by our own colonists and what is now being done on the
Buddhist head in Vietnam by the Christian minority in Saigon and their
advisors: the imposition of a culture valuing analysis and
differentiation on a culture that valued unity and integration."

http://v.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=V.#Plot_summary






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