Emily S. Apter

[alice malice]

I also lost my reference for Emily S Apter, but here is an excerpt
fromn the Abstract that may be of use to the current discussion.

I think Joseph has provided a very good thesis, overall, and there is,
as your link, Dave M, to the Archives proves,  much in the P-Industry,
P-related theory stuff, to support his Thesis.

While I applaud the discussion, generally, Monte's attempt to toss a
giant noose around Pynchon's career is a distraction from Joseph's
more focused and developed TS. David M's line of reaonsing about the
Human Condition is very good on this line and he should add to it.

OK, back to bad TV.

Like globalization, oneworldedness traduces territorial sovereignty
and often masks its identity as another name for "America." But where
globalization is an amorphous term applied to economic
neo-imperialism; to projections of the world as an ideologically
bicameral, yet fatally integrated single community; to the centrifugal
pressure of dominant world languages and literatures (English,
Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Russian, Arabic); to the homogeneity of
culture produced under capitalism; and to an essentially
noncomparative model of comparative literature, oneworldedness, as I
am defining it, refers more narrowly to a delirious aesthetics of
systematicity; to the match between cognition and globalism that is
held in place by the paranoid premise that "everything is connected."

American culture obviously holds no exclusive patent on
oneworldedness. Jia Zhangke's 2004 film The World, Okakura Tenshin's
political construct of "Asia as One," the recent coinage of "Chindia"
to distinguish an emergent giant of global finance capital (China plus
India), or Lydia Liu's suggestion that the proper name "China" could
arguably be translated as One-world or Empire are reminders that
China's claim to oneworldedness, historically and at present, is
surely as great if not greater as America's. One could even venture
that "Asia" and "the West," in their rivalry for the title to
oneworldedness, are obverse sides of the same coin, compounding the
one-world effect by virtue of their competition for cultural hegemony.

While American literature is far from being the only national
literature to privilege paranoid psychosis--think of Gogol's The Nose,
Kafka's The Trial, and more recently, the novel Links (2004) by
Somalian author Nuruddin Farah, and the novel Europeana: A Brief
History of the Twentieth Century (2001) by Czech novelist Patrik
Ouredník, which compresses every historical factoid, cliché, and idée
reçue into a single globular chronotype--paranoia consistently emerges
as a preeminent topos in major works of the post-World War II American
canon. Taken together, Thomas Pynchon's V...



On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0106&msg=56489
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> On Tuesday, March 11, 2014, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Oneworldedness: Or Paranoia as a World System
>> Emily S. Apter
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