[lbo-talk] Who are the 21st century's F. Scott Fitzgeralds?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Nov 30 08:36:23 PST 2006


Dwayne Monroe wrote:
>
>
> I'm fascinated by Fitzgerald's awareness -- very early
> on -- of the existence of an age, a new moment, in
> need of chronicling. He could have been a talented
> dope, writing pretty stories but instead he was, at
> times, a the best sort of field reporter.
>
> Surely someone out there is looking at our world of
> security theater, computer guided 19th century-esque
> war, fossilized politics, slavery within freedom
> within slavery, relentlessly splintering ideas and
> writing/filming/podcasting/blogging reports from the
> satellite observed front.

Hasn't Pynchon already done it decades ago in Gravity's Rainbow? There is a temptation to overestimate the changes which one is living through.
>From a later perspective different "ages" aren't necessarily all that
different.

Carrol



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