A Lecture on Thomas Pynchon's "Entropy"

[@arblankenship54]

This is why Pynchon is my favourite writer, in all his writings, humanity comes first

[@gavinyoung-philosophy]

First to death. Pynchon’s writing is distinctly posthumanist in its outlook and is always widening our gaze beyond the human towards the greater forces of nature such as gravity in Gravity’s Rainbow. Sure, they’re stories about humans, but only insofar as they act as a surrogate by which to birth a distinctly posthuman child.

[@mantisamygdala]

I'm impressed by Pynchon's deep humanistic stance. Against the Day, which is my favorite, I rank among Dostojewski's Idiot and Tolstoi's War and Peace.

[@labambinacolmantellorosso]

10:00 i'm taking an exam next week and this is extreamly useful, thanks

[@LeoVEggers]

This is fantastic. Thank you so much for this analysis.

[@johnpistelli9092]

You're welcome!

[@SleeplessAnarchist]

Very well put together, very informative. Thank you.

[@DocSportello1970]

Let us not forget his influence on Radiohead! W.A.S.T.E. not W.A.N.T. not.

[@Abraham_Hosebr]

Hello from Ukraine! Thank you for the lecture. I've just finished Pynchon collected short stories , we have the Ukrainian edition of them. Your lecture was really useful but that marriage you're have mentioned wasn't between gods, it was between nymph Thethis and a man Peleus - father of Achilles.

[@jerrywhoomst1116]

I am very excited to start reading Pynchon soon.

[@ClarksonFisherIII]

Remember also the meatball from the song "On Top of Spaghetti." It also rolls on the floor but while the Golden Apple rolls in, the meatball rolls out. Awesome lecture! As a huge fan, I appreciate everything you said about Pynchon. Thank you!

[@danialmohamed6585]

Mr. Pistelli I am going to become a writer and I was wondering what you would recommend I do after completing my undergrad degree. I was thinking I would go into journalism so I would be able to see the world and have something to write about. Do you think that's a good idea? Thank you for your time

[@MetFansince]

You forgot his possible appearance on "The John Lourequet Show."

[@jimstan23]

Excellent analysis.

[@lairdhaynes1986]

As you began your lecture I was wondering if Pynchon is some kind of closet/crypto Discordian(a la Principia Discordia) and then I looked up from my work and saw the gGolden Apple there in your slide and I was like maybe that answers my question. Maybe knot. Idk. Regardless, I noted the synchronicity and considered they're not entirely disjunct in concept. I will say I can easily interpret the juxtaposition of the two apartments' dynamics as an apt allegory for the Sacred Chao and its accompanying principles of rising Hodge vs rising Podge.

[@onesecbeforetheend]

@@Barklord But! "JW: How do you regard Pynchon as important? Obviously he's a conspiracy theorist... RAW: We have a lot in common. It's one of those things, like Darwin and Wallace, when the time is right a couple of people are going to be saying pretty much the same thing. There are enough differences between Pynchon and me that I think I'm a little more than just an echo of Pynchon. At least I like to believe that. Shea and I were finished with Illuminatus! when we read Gravity's Rainbow and then on the rewrite we deliberately threw in a couple of references to it, but we had worked out the structure on our own, mostly on the basis of the nut mail that Playboy gets." Meanwhile, have you listened to the V. audiobook (the old one)? The voice sounds suspiciously similar to RAW's, and I'm waiting for the day I'll find evidence it's a young RAW reading it.

[@PEGGLORE]

2000th subscriber to the channel. Yeah!

[@KSCdd]

Great video

[@iuseitToo]

Thanks for posting this!

[@multismashify]

It's been a while since I last read Entropy. Was Callisto blind? I seem to remember something about that...(if that was mentioned in some of the excerpts from the text you displayed on screen, I apologize for asking a redundant question.)

[@dion1949]

Not so difficult. If he mentions something you've never heard of, look it up. That's what the Internet is for.

[@vordhobsn]

tell that to the people who read gravity's rainbow on release date buddy