Day 4: Thursday 8 June
Auditorium - Médiathèque: Médiathèque Michel-Crépeau, Avenue Michel-Crépeau
- 09:00-10:30
- COMMUNICATION 1, THE INTERNET
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Chaired by Miriam Fernández-Santiago
Melissa Leismer, Georgios Maragos and Doug Stark - ⇒ 09:00-09:30
- '[C]omputer horror tales’: The Evolution of the Internet in Thomas Pynchon’s Universe
- Georgios Maragos
- ⇒ 09:30-10:00
- The Moment of 9/11 Pitted Against the Momentousness of the Deep Web: Reversing Reality
- Melissa Leismer
- ⇒ 10:00-10:30
- Chaotic DeepArcher: Technology and Liminality in Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge
- Doug Stark
- 10:30-10:45
- Coffee Break
- 10:45-11:45
- COMMUNICATION 2, THE CRYING OF LOT 49 AND BEYOND
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Chaired by Martin Eve
Tore Rye Andersen and Xavier Marcó del Pont - ⇒ 10:45-11:15
- 'Just mail the letter': Circulation and the Epistle in The Crying of Lot 49
- Xavier Marcó del Pont
- ⇒ 11:15-11:45
- Distant Voices: Pynchon’s Telephones
- Tore Rye Andersen
- 11:45-14:00
- Lunch
- 14:00-15:30
- NEW WORLDS ON SCREEN
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Chaired by Xavier Marcó del Pont
Arkadiusz Misztal and Richard Moss - ⇒ 14:00-14:30
- 'This ole world in Minerva’s dreams’: An Animated Adaptation of The Crying of Lot 49
- Richard Moss
- ⇒ 14:30-15:00
- Δt and Pynchon’s Vision Machines: Photography and Cinema in Against the Day and Gravity's Rainbow
- Arkadiusz Misztal
- 15:30-15:45
- Coffee Break
- 15:45-17:15
- SOURCES, EDITS AND INFLUENCES
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Chaired by Michel Ryckx
Ali Chetwynd, Matthew Cissell, Nina Engelhardt and Harald Engelhardt and - ⇒ 15:45-16:15
- Minstrel-Island Mysogyny and the Edits to V.
- Ali Chetwynd
- ⇒ 16:15-16:45
- Thomas Pynchon and the Meyerhof Salon: Pynchon’s Habitus, the US Literary Field and His Authorial Practice
- Matthew Cissell
- ⇒ 16:45-17:15
- The Momentum of Pynchon’s Secret Formula: Gravity's Rainbow’s Second Equation between Archival Sources and Mathematico-Ethical Fiction
- Nina Engelhardt and Harald Engelhardt
- 20:00-22:00
- Dinner