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The Arc of the 0(0000)
- Configurations
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 19, Number 1, Winter 2011
- pp. 49-71
- 10.1353/con.2011.0006
- Article
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Abstract
The essay considers Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973) in conjunction with works by, mainly, J. G. Ballard, Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, and Stanley Kubrick, in order to discuss what Pynchon terms the rocket's "Ideology of the Zero," which predominantly manifests itself as a whitening. The premise of the essay is to discuss the ICBM's deathward trajectory as a series of approaches toward zero—ground zero in space, but also in mind; corporeal dissolutions are, further, discussed as mergers, the integration between man and machine, as well as man and animal.
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