NP - William Gibson

[Matthew Cissell]

Possible? ok. But how would that demise look? And after wards? Who takes care of infrastructure? I know nation-states and their governments as well as their geopolitical interaction leave a lot to be desired, but I imagine a post- nation-state world to be more dystopic and dysfunctional than the one we live in. Maybe that indicates a lack of imagination on my part or a conservative disposition towards the status quo. (Conservative in a Burkean sense.)
Anybody else care to weigh in on the subject?

ciao
mc otis

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 From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: NP - William Gibson
 

nation-state demise sounds very possible to me...
 
I would ask him, perversely, about surviving poor in Canada by buying second-hand stuff---clothes, noticeably--and reselling,which
I have read he did. And about that time in Canada for him (where I went to school for awhile).
 
he knows cloth---clothing.......his books also say. 
 
 

From: Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es>
To: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 9:46 AM
Subject: NP - William Gibson

Hello all.
 It seems that William Gibson will be in my area so I plan to see him. I know he's been mentioned on the list so I thought i might get some ideas from you all.

So in the documentary "No Maps For These Territories" he ventured the
 following: It [the internet] will bring about the extinction of the nation-state as we know it..." Quite a claim. What do you folks think?

Second, if you could ask him a question, what would it be?

curious mc

ps  Also visiting the area are Chuck Palahniuk and Hans Magnus Enzenberger among others but I can't make their talks.
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