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