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De Nostalgia
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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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“Well, What Socks Is Pynchon Wearing Today?” A Freiburg Scrapbook in Memory of Friedrich Kittler
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 361–373.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Geoffrey Winthrop-Young This essay, a sequence of short memories and reflections, describes several encounters with Friedrich Kittler in Freiburg between 1980 and 1985. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Friedrich Kittler Freiburg Germany Thomas Pynchon From 1980 to 1985 I studied...
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De Bellis Germanicis : Kittler, the Third Reich, and the German Wars
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 361–375.
Published: 01 November 2015
... to take form in the stateless German night, a State that spans oceans and surface politics, sovereign as the International or the Church of Rome, and the Rocket is its soul. —Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow This special section of Cultural Politics contains four hitherto untranslated essays...
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Auto Bahnen / Free Ways
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 376–383.
Published: 01 November 2015
.... The Collection des cahiers de la victoire , a series of French war propaganda pamphlets, dedicates an issue and a title to the Voie sacrée . The autobahn, hardly invented, becomes literature. Long before Tyrone Slothrop and Thomas Pynchon, soldiers of the (barely neutral) United States, come to Europe and take...
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Celebration: A World of Appearances: Paul Virilio Interviewed by Sacha Goldman
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 61–72.
Published: 01 March 2012
... whom I very much appreciate, 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...
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Deep Times of Planetary Trouble
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (3): 279–292.
Published: 01 November 2016
... the following example. This move toward a different set of questions fits rather well with what Thomas Pynchon—so dear to many media theorists, not least Kittler—voiced about twentieth-century technical culture: “This War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people...
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Hunting a Whale of a State: Kittler and His Terrorists
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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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“Passing Everybody and Never Halting”: Dromos and Speed in Jack Kerouac's On the Road
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 139–156.
Published: 01 March 2012
... Schwarz Michiel . 16 – 21 . London : 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...
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Resistance Becomes Ballistic: Vanishing Point and the End of the Road
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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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Democracy of Emotion
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Cultural Politics (2005) 1 (3): 339–352.
Published: 01 November 2005
... also how, opposing 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...
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The History of the Black Box: The Clash of a Thing and Its Concept
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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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Real Time Analysis, Time Axis Manipulation
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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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Postcatastrophic Utopias
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Cultural Politics (2014) 10 (2): 132–150.
Published: 01 July 2014
... . Earthrise: How Man First Saw the Earth . New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Pynchon Thomas . 1973 . Gravity’s Rainbow . New York : Viking . Quinn D. B. 1945 . “ Sir Thomas Smith (1513–1577) and the Beginning of English Colonial Theory .” Proceedings of the American...
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Excursions and Recursions: Kittler's Homeric Wake
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 429–442.
Published: 01 November 2012
... imagine Kittler without his equally rapt invocations of the Doors and Jimi Hendrix, Thomas Edison and Thomas 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...
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In the Wake of the Odyssey
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (3): 413–427.
Published: 01 November 2012
... to take off her bikini in front of Capri or Saint Tropez. The Sirens became film stars— la BB , as her naked skin is celebrated in song. Therefore there can be no talk of marital fidelity in the age of media. Thomas Pynchon demonstrated it once and for all with Gravity's Rainbow : randy-minded men going...
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Wagner's Furious Host
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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...