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     Serres Reads Pynchon / Pynchon Reads Serres

     Hanjo Berressem
     University of Cologne
     hanjo.berressem@uni-koeln.de

     © 2001 Hanjo Berressem.
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          Elective affinities. ...to fold onto each other two texts
          that have similar diagrams and thus to open up a field of
          intricate resonances: Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon (New
          York: Holt, 1997), a text about the genesis of America, and
          Michel Serres's Genesis (Genesis. Trans. G. James & J.
          Nielson, Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995), a text about
          the science & philosophy of surveying. In the original,
          hypertextual version the essay contained links between 
          the two parts. In this text-only version, the reader has 
          to switch between the texts at the appropriate passages.

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                    Works Cited: Serres Reads Pynchon

     Adorno, Theodor and Max Horkheimer. Dialectic of Enlightenment.
     Trans. J. Cumming. New York: Verso, 1979.

     Cilliers, Paul. Complexity and Postmodernism: Understanding
     Complex Systems. New York: Routledge, 1998.

     Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism
     and Schizophrenia. Trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, Helen R.
     Lane. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1983.

     Guattari, Félix. Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm.
     Trans. P. Bains and J. Pefanis. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995.

     Serres, Michel. Genesis. Trans. G. James and J. Nielson. Ann
     Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995.

     ---. Hermès III--La traduction. Paris: Minuit, 1974.

     ---. La Naissance de la Physique: Dans le Texte de Lucrèce:
     Fleuves et Turbulences. Paris: Minuit, 1977.

     Whitman, Walt. "Democratic Vistas." Complete Poetry and Selected
     Prose. Ed. J. E. Miller. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1959.
     455-501.

                    Works Cited: Pynchon Reads Serres

     Krafton-Minkel, Walter. Subterranean Worlds: 100,000 Years of
     Dragons, Dwarfs, the Dead, Lost Races & UFOs from Inside the
     Earth. Port Townsend, WA: Loompanics Unlimited, 1989.

     Lacan, Jacques. Écrits. New York: Norton, 1977.

     Pynchon, Thomas. V. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1963.

     ---. Gravity's Rainbow. New York: Viking, 1973.

     ---. Vineland. Boston: Little Brown, 1990.

     ---. Mason & Dixon. New York: Holt, 1997.