More H/Pugwash

[alice wellintown]

What is necessary, Heidegger contends, is to create a kind of openness or
clearing in which Being can become present on its own terms, which can be
accomplished by humanity's maintaining combined attitudes of alert
passivity and nurturing. In Vineland, this role is taken by Zoyd, who both
nurtures his (and Frenesi's) daughter Prairie and is able to let her be.
Zoyd is a father with the qualities of a mother, a father without the
Phallus, whose penis is only a penis. He is not quite a void -- some figure
for feminine absence entirely outside the symbolic order; he is...a Zoyd:
passive but capable, a laid-back fuck-up but a good parent, out of the loop
but very much in the symbolic. And Prairie, as her name implies, is the
clearing, the opening, which Zoyd allows to come into presence and who may
become the site of a new political-sexual-symbolic order not based on the
gun, the camera, and the Phallus.
This would be a straight Heideggerian reading, for which Pynchon has
provided plenty of cues. But the book is too complex and excessive to allow
us to stop here.


http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/papers_berger.html



On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:25 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>wrote:

>  >Berger's wonderful essay on Vineland (linked)
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> Where?
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> 2013/6/17 alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
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>>  Forgot, Derek C Maus. I linked his essay.
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>> And Ireton's journal publication: Lines and Crimes of Demarcation:
>> Mathematizing nature in Heidegger, Pynchon, and Kehlmann
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>> Berger's wonderful essay on Vineland (linked)
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>> Tony  Tanner
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>> And Patrick Heelan, linked his work at Georgetown U.
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>> And Locke, Bacon, Shakespeare, Chinese Legalism vs. Max Weber on
>> Charismatic leadership, and The Prince, Machiavelli.
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>> Several article on Math and Music and Math in Nature (from The Atlantic,
>> Ne Republic, a Blog on the Birth of Mathematics)
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>> Anderson's, _Feed_   Lostpedia, Twain, Orwell, Rilke, McCarthy,
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>> Frye, Bakhtin, Bloom on Mennipean Satire
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>> Nabokov's Lectures
>> Norbert Wiener
>> Norman O Brown
>> C.P. Snow
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>> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 6:16 AM, alice wellintown <
>> alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  There is much to chew on.
>>>
>>> I've posted from a few critics:
>>>
>>> Voegelin, Eddins, Seed, Clontz, Cowart, Heffernan, Coffman, Hume.
>>>
>>> And from recent publications on Science and Ethics:
>>>
>>> Nolan, Mary. "Science for Madmen," review of Racial Hygiene: Medicine
>>> Under the Nazis.
>>>
>>> Medical Science Under Dictatorship
>>> by Leo Alexander,
>>>
>>> Evil Men
>>> by James Dawes
>>>
>>> And from "Classic Texts" on Technology, Technic, and Science
>>> Plato,  Marx, Heidegger, Mumford, McLuhan, Weber, Postman, Ellul,
>>> Benjamin.
>>>
>>>
>>> Reich's _The Mass Psychology of Fascism_
>>>
>>> And, as promised I will return to "Entropy" and "The Secret Integration"
>>> and V. (Mondaugan & Co.), so, to our favorite P favorite, Henry Adams.
>>>
>>> I'm a bitch. A humpty-dumpty's bitch.
>>>
>>>
>>> I don't believe in constructive discourse or reason on the P-List.
>>>
>>> The poodle bites and the poodle chews it.
>>>
>>> http://www.users.drew.edu/~jlenz/pugwash.html
>>>
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