for Lit-critters...on Vineland
Ian Livingston
igrlivingston at gmail.com
Tue Jan 1 13:18:35 CST 2013
Skip was my advisor in grad school. I assure you he's too grown up to be
doctrinaire. Thanks for posting this! I'll go read it now.
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From a new Salon piece on utopias of the mind:
> "The religious utopianism was that of the Protestant religious right,
> which grew in influence in the 1980s and peaked in the 1990s. While the
> religious right included some Catholics and Jews, its roots were in the
> Calvinist project of creating a sanctified Christian theocracy on earth. To
> be sure, most members of the religious right were more moderate than
> Christian Reconstructionists, who wanted to create an actual Iranian-style
> theocracy with Christian rather than Muslim content. But the project of
> remaking a modern, diverse, continental nation on the basis of a book was
> equally insane, whether the holy book was Marx’s Kapital or the Bible."
>
>
> If I don't read this, and before I do, I want to ask about bits I think
> I've noticed:
>
> Lotsa traces of Anti-Marx.........
>
> he don't much "like" any "ideology", I say.
>
> *From:* alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> *To:* pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 1, 2013 9:36 AM
> *Subject:* for Lit-critters...on Vineland
>
> Heavy with Jameson, Derrida....and all that college boyz stuff, but
> good to the last cherry pop.
>
>
> Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction
>
> Volume 51, Issue 3, 2010
>
> Spectres of Marx in Thomas Pynchon's Vineland
>
> Skip Willman
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--
"We know that the mask of the unconscious is not rigid--it reflects the
face we turn towards it. Hostility lends it a threatening aspect,
friendliness softens its features."
--C.G. Jung
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