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

[alice malice]

Intelligentsia

Tom Stoppard on Russia’s renegade thinkers.

by Hilton Als January 8, 2007
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2007/01/08/070108crth_theatre_als

On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 5:54 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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...
>>
>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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)?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> On May 10, 2014, at 5:06 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> >
>>> > >> 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.<<
>>> >
>>> > This sums it up for me.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 09.05.2014 21:23, Dave Monroe wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/gif-explainers-explained-in-thomas-pynchon-explained-1573696149
>>> >> -
>>> >> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>> >
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