(The Philosophy of) Science and Pynchon

[Prashant Kumar]

Has anyone read Pynchon and Relativity by Bourcier?

http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=162396&SubjectId=997&Subject2Id=1041

On Wednesday, 8 August 2012, Prashant Kumar wrote:

> Does anyone know of any scholarly treatments of the science in Pynchon's
> works? I'm looking for something that does more than skirt the issue or
> insist that "Pynchon associates this cultural construction, which [is]
> refer[red] to ... as Science, with a range of abstract systems that, when
> imposed upon humanity, prove to be both oppressive and destructive." which
> I think is boring and lazy.
>
> Most of what else I can find seems to be nothing more profound than people
> drawing diagrams of the "narrative structure" of GR, pointing at a picture
> of a black hole spacetime and then nodding sagely.
>


>
> Also, any pointers to discussions of science in literature would be
> appreciated.
>
> Prashant
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20120810/d8a11b1c/attachment.html>