bavatuesdays3d ago

Gen Xfest and the Better Suit Industrial Complex

I’m still within the gravitational pull of CloudFest 2026 Gen Xfest 2026, which is always a dangerous thing—but not bad for the bavablog post count!

At the same time I’ve been reading [[Shadow Ticket]] by [[Thomas Pynchon]], and somewhere between the booths, the buzzwords, and the frank and beans, the two started bleeding into one another.

Because what I’m seeing  at Gen XFest—and […]

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David PraterJun 17, 2004

Thomas Pynchon: “Gravity’s Rainbow”

What better way to mark yesterday's 100th anniversary of Bloomsday than to admit I have never read more than twenty pages of Ulysses, due in no small part to the Leavisite method of critical textual analysis introduced in my first days of undergraduate English. Don't get me wrong: I respect the man, and having heard several sections of Finnegans Wake read aloud, can vouch for the fact that Joyce was a funny old bugger. Trouble is, the attraction of reading Ulysses has been sullied by the […]

https://daveydreamnation.com/non-fiction/reviews/thomas-pynchon-gravitys-rainbow/

Thomas Pynchon: “Gravity’s Rainbow” – Davey Dreamnation

What better way to mark yesterday's 100th anniversary of Bloomsday than to admit I have never read more than twenty pages of Ulysses, due in no small part to the Leavisite method of critical textual analysis introduced in my first days of undergraduate English. Don't get me wrong: I respect the man, and having heard…

Ulrich PlateMar 20
#vendredilecture en terrain incertain dans tous les sens du terme – vague, ambivalent, confus, trompeur. Trente ans après l’œuvre principale « One flew over the cuckoo’s nest » #KenKesey sortait son dernier roman : « Sailor Song », récit d’anticipation d’encore trente ans au futur – les années 20 du 21e siècle. Situé dans un port de pêche aux confins d’Alaska, il met en scène le conflit entre civilisation et nature à bord d’une véritable nef des fous : ancien écoterroriste se bat contre l’équipage d’un navire plein de cinéastes sous la direction d’un albino méchant – référence intertextuelle au Cpt. Weissmann dans « Gravity’s Rainbow » de #ThomasPynchon...
Miss FidgetMar 16

No lie, a small part of me almost expected an Oscar’s cameo by Thomas Pynchon last night.

#Oscar #ThomasPynchon

FahrenheitMar 16

Filmy i seriale:
»Lista laureatów 98. gali wręczenia Oscarów«

Amerykańska Akademia Sztuki i Wiedzy Filmowej ogłosiła listę filmów, aktorów i twórców nagrodzonych za swoją pracę w 2025 rok.

https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/film/lista-laureatow-98-gali-wreczenia-oscarow/

#Fahrenheit_zin #Vineland #MrNobodyagainstPutin #AudreyNuna #EricSaindon #Avatar #ThomasPynchon #DavidBorenstein #ReiAmi #DanielBarrett #MichaelBJordan #Hamnet #PavelTalankin #GwendolynYatesWhittle #RyanCoogler #SeanPenn #Wszystkiepustepokoje #JuanPeralta #LudwigGoransson #Wartośćsentymentalna #AlltheEmptyRooms #AlNelson #JessieBuckley #SentimentalValue #JoshuaSeftel #GarethJohn #Frankenstein #JoachimTrier #ŚpiewacyTheSingers #GaryARizzo #Grzesznicy #Kpopowełowczyniedemonów #JackPiatt #F1Film #Sinners #KPopDemonHunters #SamADavis #F1 #AutumnDuraldArkapaw #ChrisAppelhans #Dwieosobywymieniającesięśliną #KateHawley #Weapons #MaggieKang #TwoPeopleExchangingSaliva #MikeHill #AvatarOgieńipopiół #MichelleWong #AlexandreSingh #JordanSamueliClionaFurey #AvatarFireandAsh #TheGirlWhoCriedPearls #NatalieMusteata #TamaraDeverell #Jednabitwapodrugiej #ChrisLavis #AndyJurgensen #ShaneVieau #OneBattleafterAnother #MaciekSzczerbowski #Golden #JoeLetteri #PaulThomasAnderson #PanNiktkontraPutin #EJAE #RichardBaneham

Italian News by RSSMar 16

Repubblica.it: Una battaglia dopo l’altra, il film da sei Oscar di Paul Thomas Anderson

Tratto dal romanzo Vineland di Thomas Pynchon, il film è un affresco dell’America oggi raccontato da un regista che si sente “un hippie californiano”

One battle after another, this six-Oscar-nominated film by Paul Thomas Anderson.

Adapted from the novel *Vineland* by Thomas Pynchon, the film is a portrait of contemporary America told by a director who feels like “a Californian hippie.”

#PaulThomasAnderson #Vineland #ThomasPynchon #America #Californian

https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/dossier/oscar/2026/03/16/news/una_battaglia_dopo_l_altra_paul_thomas_anderson_oscar_2026_recensione-425224427/

Una battaglia dopo l’altra, il film da sei Oscar di Paul Thomas Anderson

Tratto dal romanzo Vineland di Thomas Pynchon, il film è un affresco dell’America oggi raccontato da un regista che si sente “un hippie californiano”

la Repubblica
BlütensthaubMar 15

Thomas Pynchon, „Gravity’s Rainbow“, 1973

„Vergiss nicht, dass das eigentliche Geschäft des Krieges das Kaufen und Verkaufen ist. Das Töten und die Gewalt regeln sich von selbst und können Laien anvertraut werden.“

https://www.cocosse.com/2026/03/days-entrust-thomas-pynchon-1973/

#Gewalt #GravitySRainbow #Krieg #Politik #Töten #ThomasPynchon #Zettel
Days [ ) Entrust | Thomas Pynchon, 1973 - C o c o s s e

Entrust | Thomas Pynchon, 1973

C o c o s s e
Chris W.Mar 4

»He has the heart of a punk rock singer, but the blood of a protestant New Yorker subscriber.«

Fantastic Podcast for my first read of Thomas Pynchons #GravitysRainbow :

Slow Learners: EP 5: Use Your Allusion (W/Prof. David Cowart)

Webseite der Episode: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ian-scuffling/episodes/EP-5-Use-Your-Allusion-WProf--David-Cowart-e2a74eg

#Pynchon #ThomasPynchon

EP 5: Use Your Allusion (W/Prof. David Cowart) by Slow Learners

We wrap the first part of Gravity's Rainbow (chapters 18-21), which sees Pointsman getting lucky, Slothrop shipped off to the Riviera, and Roger and Jessica checking out a cheeky Christmas panto. In this episode, we're joined by David Cowart, author of Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History and Thomas Pynchon: The Art of Allusion, to talk about the history of the postmodern novel, and how Gravity's Rainbow defines the form. Other topics include: Chaucer, Joyce, Christmas Parties, if the British put a moratorium on German art during WWII, meta-narratives, Jerry Garcia, Weimar Germany, Marxists, the cult of the rocket, poster pasting, probability, the mechanical model of the human mind, Newtonian reality vs. Heisenbergian reality, entropy. Read Proverbs For Paranoids, John's guide to Gravity's Rainbow. E-mail us your questions, queries, and crackpot theories: [email protected] And/or... Leave us a voicemail by calling (609) 353-6873.

Spotify for Creators
No oficialFeb 22

Para descargar algo de la plataforma scribd

En este artículo sobre los luditas enlazan a un ensayo escrito por Thomas Pynchon «¿Está bien ser un ludita?» lamentáblemente ese enlace va hacía una página que no existe en la Revista Corónica!.

El ensayo está en Scribd.

Para descargar ese texto hay que poner la dirección del texto en scribd en esta plataforma:

https://scribsave.net/

Por ahora está funcionando!

Una sección dedicada a las herramientas de Internet que tengo que ordenar!!

#EstáBienSerUnLudita #scribd #ThomasPynchon
Los luditas sabían que el capitalismo venía a quitarnos todo - Jacobin Revista

A menudo se tacha a los luditas ingleses de tecnófobos chiflados. En realidad, se trataba de un movimiento obrero premarxista que daba prioridad a las personas y a la naturaleza sobre la propiedad privada.

Jacobin Revista
Andi ChorleyFeb 1

When power corrupts, it keeps a log of its progress , written into that most sensitive memory device, the human face."

Thomas Pynchon, Vineland

#ThomasPynchon #Vineland #Novels #Reading #Quotes #Power #Corruption