Wiliam Gibson favored this

[Mark Kohut]

Despite the bad judgment of the twitterer---there are scores lamenting thus
online---I sent THIS non-fiction piece because
I think it is good.....and pynchon-relevant.....that line paragraph "Who is
the They?".....fascism as a 'fuzzy totalitarianism"
might be one slant on a lot of Pynchon, yes?......Eco on Futurism here
mirrors P's....and places it in a real historical
context........I had never encountered this piece before....

Eco was a semiotician, a Logic founded by C.S. Pierce (and Saussure
separately, I gather as Calculus was co-founded
by separate folks, they say, or used to) who seems to be known and used a
bit by Pynchon in his oeuvre, esp Against the Day
maybe but who knows if what he read of whoever and combined with human
insights led him to his famous "logical' aphorism
on the excluded middle.

Just sayin'.




On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> agree...Just because little else is circulating and his death is a major
> 'intellectual' event
> and there has to be at least SOMETHING that is worth it, since everything
> is connected,
> and William Gibson was touched enough to favor and
>
> I'm done sending Eco stuff but I bet no one comments on the Pynchon stuff
> I send.
>
> On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 7:51 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> somebody should perhaps point out to that Eco twitter fan that he was no
>> giant at all, quite a good semiotician perhaps but as novelist ... come on.
>> (I really don't know why that dwarf has to appear on a P dedicated list.)
>>
>> 2016-02-20 13:09 GMT+01:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> *Nate Bethea (@inthesedeserts
>>> <https://twitter.com/inthesedeserts?refsrc=email&s=11>)*
>>>
>>> 2/19/16, 7:44 PM
>>> <https://twitter.com/inthesedeserts/status/700843463613538305?refsrc=email&s=11>
>>> Eco was an absolute giant, but his spectacular novels notwithstanding,
>>> everyone should read his article “Ur-Fascism” pegc.us/archive/Articl…
>>> <https://t.co/PDRMGQlQEH>
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>
>>
>
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