BE/White Noise

[Fiona Shnapple]

But the novel is not set in Manhattan, not really, or even in and
around it, but is set, as is P's practice, in a Zone or "a Multiple
World Space, a Heterotopia, its ontological plane is split along
several axes (McHale, Zapping, in Constructing Postmodernism. 137).


http://www.foucault.info/documents/heterotopia/foucault.heterotopia.en.html

http://home.foni.net/~vhummel/Image-Fiction/chapter_4.1.1.html

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
>> I'm just not enthralled by the time period Pynchon chose in BE. <
>
> Completely different over here: While IV also turned me off because of its
> Californian 1969/70 setting, which fitted all too well into the zero-years'
> 'retromania', I enjoy BE for covering a time period which has, in terms of
> digital economy and political terrorism, essentially to do with the way
> things are today. And what about HipHop and SpongeBob in a Pynchon novel?
> This definitely works for me!
>
>
>
> On 11.10.2013 17:10, rich wrote:
>>
>> question of environment, temperament, what have you. I'm just not
>> enthralled by the time period Pynchon chose in BE. as some have siad maybe
>> future generations will appreciate it more but rather than Pynchon being
>> obscure I find alot of it obvious, a death-knell for me as a reader.
>> I also just have a real killer bias against Manhattan, hideous bitch
>> goddess that she is
>> rich
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