The Anatomy of the Corporate State (The Greening of America 35 Years Later)
Peter Petto
ppetto at ppetto.com
Tue Jul 9 11:51:37 CDT 2013
Pynchon and Reich are both on our side, and romantic in the way you suggest.
But Pynchon seems more self-aware about his own tendency to folly. Reich (as I recall him from a long way away now) is more likely to be unwittingly pie eyed.
Peter++
On Jul 9, 2013, at 9:07 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> Was blowin in the wind when P was writing about technology, science, Them, the Corporate State.
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>> Does read, today, as the Skinner analysis explains, like a naive and idealistic screed that sees in the young hope springing eternal, but, isn't this what we read in P, even in his later prose?
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> The passage from GR can be, as the various readings but the P-industry prove, read or mis-read as either confirming the critiques of the insidious alliance of science/technic circa 1970 or as ridiculing such critiques.
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> and prior stuff….
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