The Frame-Breakers: Thomas Pynchon's Post-human Luddites.

Thomas Pynchon's Vineland depicts an America moving inexorably toward what Gilles Deleuze calls a 'control society,' one where intangible power structures enmesh agentless subjects. This article elaborates on the ways radical politics must be met by an equally revolutionary reconceptualization of th...

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Publicado en:Canadian Review of American Studies Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 101 - 122
Autor principal: McDonald, Riley
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: University of Toronto Press 2014
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