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Occupy Pynchon - Politics after Gravity's Rainbow (Paperback)
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Occupy Pynchon - Politics after Gravity's Rainbow (Paperback)
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Occupy Pynchon examines power and resistance in the writer's
post-Gravity's Rainbow novels. As Sean Carswell shows, Pynchon's
representations of global power after the neoliberal revolution of
the 1980s shed the paranoia and meta physical bent of his first
three novels and share a great deal in common with the work of
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's critical trilogy, Empire,
Multitude, and Commonwealth. In both cases, the authors describe
global power as a horizontal network of multinational corporations,
national governments, and supranational institutions. Pynchon, as
do Hardt and Negri, theorizes resistance as a horizontal network of
individuals who work together, without sacrificing their
singularities, to resist the political and economic exploitation of
empire. Carswell enriches this examination of Pynchon's politics-as
made evident in Vineland (1990), Mason & Dixon (1997), Against
the Day (2006), Inherent Vice (2009), and Bleeding Edge (2013)-by
reading the novels alongside the global resistance movements of the
early 2010s. Beginning with the Arab Spring and progressing into
the Occupy Movement, political activists engaged in a global
uprising. The ensuing struggle mirrored Pynchon's concepts of power
and resistance, and Occupy activists in particular constructed
their movement around the same philosophical tradition from which
Pynchon, as well as Hardt and Negri, emerges. This exploration of
Pynchon shines a new light on Pynchon studies, recasting his
post-1970s fiction as central to his vision of resisting global
neoliberal capitalism.
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