@article{pn 2366, author = {Dan O'Hara}, title = {On the Line of Flight: Pynchon's Entropy Machine}, volume = {0}, year = {1994}, url = {http://pynchonnotes.openlibhums.org/article/id/2366/}, issue = {0}, doi = {10.16995/pn.198}, abstract = {Pynchon's fictions have, since 1959, been a document of the cybernetic age. Well before Donna Haraway dreamed of the cyborg, Pynchon was expressing the concern she later voiced so well, that "Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert" (152). Somehow, though, the ambivalence of Pynchon's ethical position, of all things, has deterred critics from examining his textual machines; an aversion to the slightest suggestion of post-carbon life turns the machines into demons.}, month = {9}, pages = {56-69}, issn = {0278-1891}, publisher={Open Library of Humanities}, journal = {Pynchon Notes} }