Thomas Pynchon and the (de)vices of global (post)modernity

Introduction Zofia Kolbuszewska Politics, Violence, Resistance The ARPAnet Trip: The Network from Gravity s Ra inbow to Inherent Vice Petrus van Evijk It sure s hell looked like war: Terrorism and the Cold war in Thomas Pynchon s Against the Day and Don DeLillo s Underworld Martin Paul Eve Pynchon, Leone and Dynamite Gilles Chamerois The Unavoidable Flaws in Hippiedom and Fascism in Thomas Pynchon s Inherent Vice Celia Wallhead Alternatives, Potentialities, Counterfactuals Roads Not Taken: Historical Crossroads and Ideology in Against the Day Maximilian Heinrich This little parenthesis of light, might close after all: Organizational Devices and the End of the Era in Thomas Pynchon s Inherent Vice Xavier Marcó del Pont LSD, Leary and the Political Role of Fantasy in Thomas Pynchon s The Crying of Lot 49 and Against the Day Joanna Freer Reverberations of Utopia Love and Illumination: Ernst Bloch s On the Original History of the Third Reich and Pynchon s Imagined Europe Richard Moss You can t always blame zombies for their condition: Utopian Escapes in Thomas Pynchon s Inherent Vice Nick Holdstock Pynchon s Wild West: The American Myth in Against the Day and Other Works Jesse E. Sherwood Fictions of Science and Literature Moving Images: Light-capturing Technologies, Reality, and the Individual in Thomas Pynchon s Twentieth Century Georgios Maragos The Æther in Against the Day Simon de Bourcier Mathematics, Reality and Fiction in Pynchon s Against the Day Nina Engelhardt Players Culture Locating Pynchon in the Literary Field: A Critique of Reviews of Against the Day Matthew Cissell Pynchon s Games Sascha Pöhlmann Performing Pynchon Gary Thompson Forensic Imagination A Mystery s Redemption: Thomas Pynchon and the Inherent Vice of Detective Fiction Paolo Simonetti Varied Modes of Detection: A Forensic Investigation into Thomas Pynchon s Crying of Lot 49 and Inherent Vice Arkadiusz Misztal (De)constructing identities Pynchon and Race: V. Reconsidered Michael Harris [P]aper secrets rained back into slurry - Pynchon and Invisibility: The Case of Hans Kammler Terry Reilly The Character of Preterition: An Apology for Pointsman David Letzler Appendix Time Travelling with Pynchon in 2010: Reaching Seven from V. to IV - Pynchon s Occult Progress Douglas Lannark Works cited Index Notes on the Authors