America's Theologian

[rich]

these excerpts re: BE really hit the nail on the head

rich

As noted earlier, anarchy—one form of which is clowning, buffoonery—resists
the rulers of this world, who have grown not just in capacity but in
malice. Technology may once have been neutral, but now it has grown, has
commanded more resources, and is demanding further and greater deference,
obedience—perhaps worship...

...In that light, it is especially noteworthy that Pynchon’s one novel set
in our Internet age is the one without buffoons and pranksters. The current
Power has long been snuffing them out one by one, and what remains, the
culture of “doing it for the lulz,” is interested not in liberation but in
digitally boosted cruelty. What Pynchon, in his 1984 essay on the Luddites,
called “the emerging technopolitical order” has now emerged, and it is not
pretty.

On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 4:56 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Erik..real good stuff. almost bown away....after 3-4 more readings,
> i may have something
> more substantive to say...
>
> Only thing I ask, question: I did not think *Crying of Lot 49 *was written
> concurrently with V. is this correct?
>
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 1:10 PM Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
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> https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/theological-variations/articles/the-far-invisible
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> > Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
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> Pynchon-L: https://waste.org/mailman/listinfo/pynchon-l
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