From W.A.S.T.E. on FB. With my response. Have at it. Should be interesting.

[Mark Kohut]

The exact phrase "mere anarchy" rose (in book citations) from the late 20's
straight thru WW2, then plummeted.........only to rise again. Revealing,
I'm sure but
how do we 'read' this? If we want to.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22mere+anarchy%22&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2C%22%20mere%20anarchy%20%22%3B%2Cc0

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 6:23 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry for got to finish a sentence there.
>
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 6:16 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For the moderns and postmoderns, new scientific theories, and
> > especially the ones that suggested that the previous theories were
> > fictions or narratives,  flawed conceptions, limited or reductionist,
> > or partial or backward or wrong, though they often claimed the truth,
> > and, before they were sanctioned by power, were often feared and
> > condemned by the authorities, then made the official theory
>
>
> were used to make art and to reflect on how the world had changed, as
> Yeats so brilliantly put it, had loosed a mere anarchy.
>
> That the
> > common misconception that Einstein somehow made all things relative or
> > that Heisenberg confirmed the uncertainty we have come to accept as
> > the modern and postmodern condition or that artists must brush up on
> > their Physics is a rather rigid reading of the complex relationship of
> > science to art and of the importance of the ordinary understanding of
> > the modern and postmodern experience.
> >
> > http://duszenko.northern.edu/joyce/
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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