Description: Occupy Pynchon : Politics After Gravity's Rainbow, Paperback by Carswell, Sean, ISBN 0820356840, ISBN-13 9780820356846, Brand New, Free shipping in the US <p><i>Occupy Pynchon</i> examines power and resistance in the writer&;s post&;<i>Gravity&;s Rainbow</i> novels. As Sean Carswell shows, Pynchon&;s representations of global power after the neoliberal revolution of the 1980s shed the paranoia and metaphysical 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, <i>Empire</i>, <i>Multitude</i>, and <i>Commonwealth</i>. 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.<br><br>Carswell enriches this examination of Pynchon&;s politics&;as made evident in <i>Vineland</i> (1990), <i>Mason & Dixon</i> (1997), <i>Against the Day</i> (2006), <i>Inherent Vice</i> (2009), and <i>Bleeding Edge</i> (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.</p>
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Number of Pages: 214 Pages
Publication Name: Occupy Pynchon : Politics after Gravity's Rainbow
Language: English
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: American / General, Subjects & Themes / Politics
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Item Weight: 11.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Sean Carswell
Subject Area: Literary Criticism
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