Are there any books that deal with TV in an esoteric way as a

>>8817443
this is fucking lit
how have you not read infinite jest yet

>>8817488
I'm reading Girl With Curious Hair currently because I have an autistic need to consume media in chronological release order.

>>8817443
Vineland

In a sense it's the proto-Infinite Jest.

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it has more to do with movie theaters / film but television comes into it near the end.

I have weird correlation in mind between early cronenberg, and burrough although i havent read burroughs yet. Are they similiar?

>>8817587
Are you sure you aren't just associating them because he directed the Naked Lunch movie?

>>8817508
are you the same guy who keeps posting this
i dont think thats accurate at all

the tv part is so minor, too

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>>8817443
>>8817533

Damn, literally just wrote my senior thesis about these two and Infinite Jest

Good thing I submitted it literally one day before this fucking thread

>>8817587
>>8817610
i havent seen the naked lunch movie but if videodrome or scanners were edited by jean luc godard itd be pretty darn close to burroughs

>>8817629

>Damn, literally just wrote my senior thesis about these two and Infinite Jest

So how does it feel to have attained certified meme person status?

>>8817645

extremely empty now that i have nothing productive to do anymore

>>8817648

What are you talking about? You can shitpost about IJ all day from now on.

>>8817623
It runs deeper than just the tubeheads. The theme of mediated reality starting with film/TV and taking on a life of its own permeates the book.

>>8817443
Read McLuhan is you liked videodrome. He was the inspiration for Father Brian O'Blivion

>>8817498
But Infinite Jest is whay you're looking for.

>>8817789
>The theme of mediated reality starting with film/TV and taking on a life of its own permeates the book
Not sure what you're referring to, but I think in general Pynchon has a profound love for pop culture and mass entertainment. I don't think he's trying to be ironic by making so many of his characters pop culture heads. The use of comic book imagery in GR was beautiful. The TV addicts in Vineland seemed to me mostly a lighthearted joke, a contemporary stand-in for the stoner, while the anti-TV police were over the top authoritarians. Also considering most of the TV addicts were Thanatoids it's not exactly framed as a real social issue. I haven't read it in a while though, and it's totally possible I've missed something.