New book on Pynchon by Sean Carswell

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Will be published on 5/1/2017.

>From the author's blog:
(https://seancarswell.org/category/occupy-pynchon/)

"My Next Book

I've spent the past few years working on an academic study of Thomas
Pynchon's novels, the systems of power in those novels, and his depictions
of resistance to that power. I started the project as my dissertation, which
I finished in late July, 2011. As I was wrapping up the writing of it,
global events like the Arab Spring, the revolution in Tunisia, and austerity
protests in Greece and Spain started to occur. In September of 2011, a
handful of activists set up camp in Zuccotti Park in NYC, and the Occupy
Movement was born. Occupy's ideas of participatory democracy, their strategy
to forego protests and instead develop alternative societies (even if they
were just a demonstration of a genuinely democratic society) matched a lot
of what I'd read in Pynchon. At this point, one would think that I may have
participated in the demonstrations. I didn't. I'm the worst about attending
rallies, even if I'm sympathetic to the cause.

What I did instead was look deeper into the political and economic theorists
who provided the foundations for both Pynchon and Occupy, and I wrote a book
about it. The book is called, appropriately enough, Occupy Pynchon.

I index and proofed the typeset version of the book just as our nation
descended into the madness which resulted in the one percent taking over
every seat of power in the US and unapologetically working to make this a
nation by, for, and of the 1% (to borrow Joseph Stiglitz characterization).
I took a little comfort in knowing that I'd at least written a handbook for
resistance to this takeover. It may be an academic text geared largely for
literature scholars, marketed to university libraries, and costing $60, but
at least it's out there. Or it will be this coming May."

With a link to the publisher's page:
http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/bigness_of_world

Michel.



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