M&D CH 7 Notes

[Smoke Teff]

Beyond just politics ("shadow of our own making" as Cherrycoke says),
place is everything in P, shaping our desires in broad ways we're not
aware of. The winds are, as the LED says, "but an extreme Expression
of this Process."

"[...]waiting upon the Winds. In the Mountains, the Bull's Eye is
sovereign. All over Town, Impulse, chasten'd, increasingly defers to
Stolidity."

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:29 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> More M & D universals, so to speak:
>
> New Internationalist
> ‘Migration will become a human right’ – Mohsin Hamid
>
> The author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist talks to Graeme Green about
> extremism, the refugee crisis and feeling at home in the past.
>
> 01.06.2017-Mohsin-Hamid-590.jpg© Laurent Denimal
> In your new novel, Exit West, you write: ‘Geography is destiny’...
>
> In geopolitical terms, geography can be a matter of life and death.
> When relations between people start to break down, when suspicion and
> xenophobia grow, and when schisms start manifesting themselves, the
> exact location where you are from can take on deadly forms.
>
> Very often, we experience political events in a particular way because
> of who we are.
> People aren’t necessarily bound by where they come from, but it has a
> very real impact.
>
>
> MK: Hence the new world aborning during the old world work of M & D.
> So to say little.
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 9:04 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>>
>> Nice!
>> > On Jan 29, 2018, at 12:55 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Pynchon is going to great work in this book to defamiliarize our
>> > conception of human spaces away from mere geographies, municipalities,
>> > functions of technology and architecture and culture and politics—we
>> > understand various land masses (in M&D) as elements, as engines—as
>> > functions in a cosmology and consciousness much bigger than the
>> > individual human
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