Thomas Pynchon Explained In GIFs Form not Henry Adams again, but Edmund Wilson again

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In that SL ....To the Finland Staton...

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/03/24/030324crbo_books1



On Saturday, May 10, 2014, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is one question: How much of what is " objective scientific inquiry" an
> attempt to control?
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> I remember Monte giving us an example of ( almost?) pure, loving "science"
> in M & D, I believe, and from naturalists that go way back, thru the
> present, we know this exists in History.
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> Is the beginning of recording nature, simple catagorizing, the start of
> cataloging and NAMING scientifically, the beginning of domination, power of
> nature, science ambiguously in the service of
> Evil ( as well as good)?
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On May 10, 2014, at 5:06 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
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> > >> It would be fair to say, though, that Pynchon is obsessed with the
> relationship between reason and authoritarianism, and specifically with how
> the intellectual lineage of fascism—both its roots in the Enlightenment,
> and the way it informs present-day social and political structures—is
> intimately related to the project of objective scientific inquiry.<<
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> > This sums it up for me.
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> > On 09.05.2014 21:23, Dave Monroe wrote:
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> http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/gif-explainers-explained-in-thomas-pynchon-explained-1573696149
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