Eigenvalue

[Raphael Saltwood]

Looks interesting. Liked what I understood of _Pynchon's Poetics_ (ok, precious little, but still)

Group read?




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Berressem, Hanjo. Eigenvalue: On the Gradual Contraction of Media in
Movement / Contemplating Media in Art (Sound | Image | Sense). New
York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
See especially CMA 1-3, 51-83.
        "Although Pynchon frequently refers to the sonorous medium and to
eigensounds, it is perhaps the notion of an eigenlight that defines
his poetics most comprehensively." Pynchon's "approach to eigenvalues
is mathematical. In fact, his ultimate concern is the notion of a
'mathematical unconscious.'"

jmk


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