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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 395–406.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Friedrich Kittler; Geoffrey Winthrop-Young The essay presents a reading of three war-related texts: Friedrich Schiller’s Wilhelm Tell , Heinrich von Kleist’s The Battle of Hermann , and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow . Written against the background of the Revolutionary Wars and the Prussian...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 361–373.
Published: 01 November 2012
... or on paper—had gripped him. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Friedrich Kittler Freiburg Germany Thomas Pynchon From 1980 to 1985 I studied at the University of Freiburg. One of my instructors happened to be Friedrich Kittler. In hindsight, he was the most extraordinary scholar I ever...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 361–375.
Published: 01 November 2015
... is its soul. —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow This special section of Cultural Politics contains four hitherto untranslated essays by Friedrich Kittler: “ Auto Bahnen ,” “A Short History of the Searchlight,” “Animals of War,” and “ De Nostalgia .” They are of differing lengths, written...
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 376–383.
Published: 01 November 2015
... by Weber Carl . New York : PAJ Publications . Pynchon Thomas . 1987 . Gravity’s Rainbow . New York : Viking . And Falkenhayn acts. Crown Prince Wilhelm, in command of Fifth Army, is given the order to attack on February 12, 1916. A racing aficionado, of all people, is ordered to set...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 61–72.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., Thomas Pynchon. We have photographs of Pynchon when he was sixteen. He never gives interviews, and to me he is the greatest American writer alive today. There are others whom I adore, like Edgar Allan Poe,…but Pynchon is a man we know nothing about and will never get to know. Unless somebody takes his...
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 279–292.
Published: 01 November 2016
... for media, both the standardized materials of construction and also the sorts of materials we rarely discuss in media studies: obsolete, discarded, and electronic waste. This move toward a different set of questions fits rather well with what Thomas Pynchon—so dear to many media theorists, not least...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 399–412.
Published: 01 November 2012
... and reception of texts is now, in the realm of war and politics, the unflinching acceptance of dynamics and exigencies related to resources and technologies. The way in which Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow describes the Second World War applies to all wars: This War was never political at all...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 139–156.
Published: 01 March 2012
... : Photographers' Gallery . Moore, Dave. 2007. “Jack and Neal on Record.” The Dharma Beat, www.dharmabeat.com/kerouaccorner.html #Jack&NealonRecord . Pynchon Thomas . 1984 . Slow Learner . Boston : Little, Brown . Redhead Steve . 2004 . Paul Virilio: Theorist for an Accelerated...
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (1): 35–50.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., then, is no symbol of liberty in Vanishing Point but an expression of managerial control and death. As Thomas Pynchon's Oedipa Maas understands it in The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), the road provides merely an “illusion of speed, freedom, wind in your hair, unreeling landscape – it wasn't. What the road really...
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 339–352.
Published: 01 November 2005
... this, a whole host of literary and scientific bigwigs play on dissimulation, 3 not to say the most total anonymity. I'm thinking of Henri Michaux in days gone by or Thomas Pynchon today, writers who refuse to grant any interviews whatsoever to the press and who systematically refuse to be photographed … Note...
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (1): 41–58.
Published: 01 March 2011
... in a rough landing. If the impact switch were not disconnected immediately before landing on the home held or on a carrier, such a landing would set off the charge.” 18. Thomas Pynchon notably uses the same strategy of fictionalization in Gravity's Rainbow : in his American novel the English term...
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Cultural Politics (2017) 13 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2017
... of their sheet value). As Thomas Pynchon made clear in The Crying of Lot 49 , the Fourier analysis hears, as it were, within one single violin tone all the innumerable, strictly mathematical violins simultaneously producing perfect sine or cosine waves, as if they were all the world’s radio stations combined...
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 132–150.
Published: 01 July 2014
..., July 23, 1975” In Brand 1977 : 12 – 21 . O’Neill Gerard K . 1978 . The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space . London : Corgi Books . Poole Robert . 2008 . Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Pynchon Thomas . 1973...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 429–442.
Published: 01 November 2012
... Pynchon? These North American excursions were surely as constitutive for his work as any Mediterranean ones. Yet Kittler's late work seems to elide its basis in historical excursion in favor of a self-referential absolutizing of recursion. Kittler's basal recursions are, however, even more...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 413–427.
Published: 01 November 2012
.... Thomas Pynchon demonstrated it once and for all with Gravity's Rainbow : randy-minded men going home from a dark movie theater do not father children on their wives. Homer's Sirens sang that heroes whose black ships land on their flowery shores bring even more desire and knowledge back home with them...
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Cultural Politics (2022) 18 (3): 287–296.
Published: 01 November 2022
... – 254 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Pynchon Thomas . 1987 . Gravity's Rainbow . New York : Viking Penguin . Ranke Winfried . 1982 . “ Magia naturalis , physique amusante und aufgeklärte Wissenschaft .” In Laterna Magica. Lichtbilder aus Menschenwelt und...
