AtD-related? "the abstraction of non-imperial art"

[jochen stremmel]

Would you really say, Mark, that Pynchon writes "savage Swiftian
satire" like the Modest Proposal? A text that I would call subversive
and savage all right.

2012/4/19 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> "The abstraction of non-imperial art is not concerned with any particular
> public or audience."
>
> From an online tweet and NO link.....but we plisters don't need no stinkin'
> link to a real
> essay to have a good discussion, do we?
>
> I would, many of you have in various ways, see Pynchon's art as
> anti-imperialistic, yes?
>
> If his irrealness, surrealism, savage Swiftian satire, or whatever we
> want to call his style is labelled
> 'abstract' for purposes of this discussion---basically, not realistic and
> full of ideas---
>
> any thoughts on the quote?