"Single Up All Lines"Re: The Beginnings of Infinity by David Deutsch

[David Morris]

Are We Not Men?
We Are Devo!

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:16 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Technological forces (systems of production for Marx) do not evolve
> automatically in ages, Mechanic, Electric, Digital ...each one wiping
> the previous age away and determining the character of the new age and
> all its institutions. They evolve in lines tangled and fastened to
> loose and fast fish. An historian who hopes to untangle these lines by
> learning how they were cut into bits and bites will find himself like
> Black Pip, a Castaway, not in Poe's malestrom, or in McLuhan's
> electric whirlpool, but deeper still, where Catskill Eagles soar, down
> where God's foot upon the peddle moves the loom and weaves the great
> inscrutable tapestry unfathomable. There is your Narcissus. There is
> the mirror of the sea!
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Thanks much for this....yes, very worth encountering...I think I may......
>>
>> meanwhile, this seems like as good a place as any to put
>> down another Pynchon-relevant McLuhan idea
>>
>> He stresses over and over, like a non-linear piece of music, that, in the Mechanic Age, which still exists massively
>> in the Electric Age (until it wipes that away), is where the whole western world had to learn to
>> deal with about everything one fragment at a time,after one fragment at a time....
>>
>> Piece by piece, bit by bit, all lines singled up.................
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
>> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Cc:
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:52 AM
>> Subject: The Beginnings of Infinity by David Deutsch
>>
>> In the interest of knowing thy enemy (speaking as a Pynchonian) this guy is the supreme anti-est Luddite you are every going to want to meet.  Laszlo Jamf would approve. The goal is to see Nature gone for good. (only a slight exaggeration)
>>
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/books/review/the-beginning-of-infinity-by-david-deutsch-book-review.html?_r=1&ref=books
>>
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