The Cosmic WebPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.7591/9781501722974-003
{"title":"Chapter I. Spinning The Web Representative Field Theories and Their Implications","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501722974-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722974-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":383691,"journal":{"name":"The Cosmic Web","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123963500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Cosmic WebPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.7591/9781501722974-006
N. K. Hayles
{"title":"Chapter 4. Ambivalence Symmetry, Asymmetry, and the Physics of Time Reversal in Nabokov's Ada","authors":"N. K. Hayles","doi":"10.7591/9781501722974-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722974-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":383691,"journal":{"name":"The Cosmic Web","volume":"46 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113962187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Cosmic WebPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.7591/9781501722974-005
N. K. Hayles
{"title":"3. Evasion: The Field of the Unconscious in D. H. Lawrence","authors":"N. K. Hayles","doi":"10.7591/9781501722974-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722974-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":383691,"journal":{"name":"The Cosmic Web","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114945565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Cosmic WebPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.7591/9781501722974-007
{"title":"5. Subversion Infinite Series and Transfinite Numbers in Borges's Fictions","authors":"","doi":"10.7591/9781501722974-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722974-007","url":null,"abstract":"NABOKOV AND BORGES are ofren compared, but their responses to the field concept arc very different: whereas Nabokov is drawn to it because its asymmetries promise to rescue art from being merely a game, Borges is attracted to it because its discontinuities reveal that everything, including itself, is no more than a game . The two stances are associated with very different literary strategies . As we saw in Chap ter 5, the impetus of Ada is to stop time; to create patterns whose parameters, once set, can encompass all future permutations; to make absolute and immortal the identity of the narrator, idiosyncrasies intact, by weaving his patterns of thought into the fabric of the created world. Borges, by contrast, attempts to increase rather than use up the available permutations. Instead of hundreds of pages he writes five or six, characteristically including at least one open-ended catalogue capa ble of indefinite expansion. For Borges stasis is impossible because art is not an object to be framed, but a continuing process whose permuta tions arc inexhaustible . In \"Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote,\" for example, a changed context results in a completely different text. The Don Quixote of Pierre Menard, we arc told, is a richer, subtler, and","PeriodicalId":383691,"journal":{"name":"The Cosmic Web","volume":"713 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133050201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Cosmic WebPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.7591/9781501722974-004
N. K. Hayles
{"title":"Chapter 2. Drawn to the Web The Quality of Rhetoric in Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance","authors":"N. K. Hayles","doi":"10.7591/9781501722974-004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722974-004","url":null,"abstract":"ROBERT M. PIRSIG'S VERSION of the field concept derives in part, as his title suggests, from the Zen concept of a fluid, dynamic reality that precedes and eludes verbal formulation. Yet it is also in formed by the Western tradition that secs the Word as the ultimate reality. The concern with language that was one of the keynotes of the last chapter is central to Pirsig's attempt to find a rhetoric capable of meeting these conflicting premises . The emphasis on rhetoric is apparent in the \"Author's Note\" that introduces the narrative. In it, Pirsig claims that \"what follows is based on actual occurrences,\" but adds that \"much has been changed for rhetorical purposes.\" 1 In this ambitious autobiography that is also a novel, 2 three distinct rhetorical strategies are evident: those of the au-","PeriodicalId":383691,"journal":{"name":"The Cosmic Web","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117308428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Cosmic WebPub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.7591/9781501722974-008
N. K. Hayles
{"title":"Chapter 6. Caught In The Web Cosmology and the Point of (No) Return in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow","authors":"N. K. Hayles","doi":"10.7591/9781501722974-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722974-008","url":null,"abstract":"MoRE THAN ANY OTHER writer in this study, Pynchon grasps the full implications of the field concept, including both its promise of a reality that is a harmonious, dynamic whole and the problem it poses of how to represent that reality in the fragmented medium of language. Pynchon's response to this dilemma is to create a text that at once invites and resists our attempts to organize it into a unified field of meaning. Gravity's Rainbow is notoriously difficult to read because its complex and recurring allusions constantly tempt the reader to search for, and recognize, the extensive patterns of interlocking images to which the text owes its remarkable coherence and density, 1 while at the same time frustrating this attempt by a variety of techniques that tend to obliterate or contradict the emerging patterns. Any coherent account of this narrative will have to come to grips with this deconstructing","PeriodicalId":383691,"journal":{"name":"The Cosmic Web","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121093478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}