TY  - BOOK
AU  - Arkadiusz Misztal
PY  - 2019
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2364-2882
SN  - 9783631792599
TI  - Time and Vision Machines in Thomas Pynchon’s Novels
DO  - 10.3726/b15742
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1056399
N2  - 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.
KW  - Contemporary American Literature, Time Studies, Visual Technologies, Postmodernism, Luddism, Philosophy of Technology
LA  - English
ER  -