Occupy Pynchon

Occupy Pynchon examines power and resistance in the writer’s post– Gravity’s Rainbow novels. As Sean Carswell shows, Pynchon’s representations of global power after the neoliberal revolution of the 1980s shed the paranoia and meta­physical bent of his first three novels and share a great deal in common with the work of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s critical trilogy, Empire , Multitude , and Commonwealth . In both cases, the authors describe global power as a horizontal network of multination