more on Pynchon, plastic, and pop culture

[David Morris]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxihhBzCjk

One word, plastics.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 9:53 AM Meikle, Jeffrey L <meikle at mail.utexas.edu>
wrote:

> At the risk of sounding my own horn (much muted by covid isolation), I'd
> like to add a source on Pynchon and plastic to go with the German article
> from 2017 posted by Kai Frederik Lorentzen. My book American Plastic: A
> Cultural History, from 1995, mostly covers the scientific, technological,
> commercial, design, and marketing expansion of plastics from the late 19th
> century to the end of the 20th. There's much on the symbolism of plastics
> and plasticity throughout, but the final chapter, "Beyond Plastic: The
> Culture of Synthesis," explores metaphorical meanings of the words and the
> concepts they define. One section of that chapter, "A Chemist Whose
> Molecules Are Words" (pp. 293-299), is about Pynchon, plastic, and
> Gravity's Rainbow. My book went out of print a couple years ago, but there
> are lots of used copies for sale, and during these days of closed
> libraries, you can find a free pdf to download from one of those infamous
> Russian websites if you do some careful searching. I used to
>   be a frequent contributer to the list but this is my first post in ages.
> I'm glad you're all still at it.
>
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