Thursday, May 15, 2008
These graphs present spatializations of the chronology of
Gravitys Rainbow as ascertained by Steven Weisenburger in both the
Companion and his earlier chronologies in
Pynchon Notes. See Bibliography for full details. The graphs plot the discrete time periods (delta-t) identified by Weisenburger against ascending numbers that correspond to the delta-t units, rather than episodes of the text. Only the first three parts are graphed as Part IV: The Counterforce becomes too fragmented for such an undertaking to be fruitful. The graphs have a Polynomial trendline of Orders 3-5 applied to them.
You can also download the
original datasheet in Excel 2007 format which contains a few extra notes on the erroneous data points that cause the sine wave to appear.
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Friday, May 09, 2008
Just a quick note to point out that abstracts are now available for all speakers at this year's International Pynchon Week conference.
See
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~poehlmann/IPW2008/ for more information.
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Thursday, May 08, 2008
As Derrida procilaimed Differance to be a motif of economy, glossed by Spivak as a metaphor of energy where two opposed forces playing against each other constitute the so-called identity of a phenomenon. [...] Economy is not a reconciliation of opposites, but rather a maintaining of disjunction. Identity constituted by difference is economy (Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Translators Preface in Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, trans. by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1997), p. xlii.), it seems evident that the points at which we will find soci-economic aspects in society are at the points of conflict, or difference.
In terms of the current economic status of the UK, perhaps this has more to do with the second aspect of Differance; deferral. The putting off of what was really common knowledge the whole time. Who can seriously raise a hand and claim that they did not know that the entire consumer credit market was based upon a purely fictional reserve of money? The capital never existed, yet the system somehow persisted; it is only upon a dawning awareness of the situation that it finally collapses. Knowledge once again shows itself to be a dangerous entity, not just for big business, but for all the preterite souls too.
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