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

[alice malice]

And here, a dine piece of on the road to nowhere and speaking of
Utopias and Wilson....

On the Road to Nowhere


Tom Stoppard’s Russian intellectuals take a wrong turn with Hegel,
just as Edmund Wilson once did with Marx

By John Patrick Diggins

http://theamericanscholar.org/on-the-road-to-nowhere/#.U29ILSiBUTs

On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 9:49 PM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
> In that SL ....To the Finland Staton...
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> http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/03/24/030324crbo_books1
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> On Saturday, May 10, 2014, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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>
>> 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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