Time and Vision Machines in Thomas Pynchon's Novels by Misztal, Arkadiusz; Wilczynski, Marek;

Series: Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture; 29;

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Edition number NED
Publisher Peter Lang
Date of Publication 1 January 2019

ISBN 9783631788097
Binding Hardback
No. of pages172 pages
Size 212x153x16 mm
Weight 299 g
Language English

Short description:

The book studies the relations between time and visual technologies in the oeuvre of Thomas Pynchon within the framework of the culture and politics of time. By examining photography, cinema, tv, computers, and the Internet, it puts Pynchon's engagement with these technologies into a perspective that elucidates their workings as time machines.

Long description:

This book studies the complex relations between time and visual technologies in the oeuvre of Thomas Pynchon within the general framework of the culture and politics of time. It argues that notwithstanding a postmodern tendency towards the spatialization of experience, temporality constitutes a major concern in Pynchon's novels, which explore the problematic of time-experience and temporal representation against the background of the contemporary technosphere and its temporal regimes. By examining photography, cinema, television, computers, and the Internet, this book puts Pynchon's engagement with visual technologies into a perspective that elucidates their workings as time machines in relation to both experientiality and materiality.