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9/11 attacks, 62, 124, 128, 146, 157,172–75, 183, 187, 188, 189–90, 198

1966, 27–28, 32–361973, 63–651990s, 124–572000, 171–722001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick), 141

Aarseth, Espen, 132Abish, Walter, 92Abstract Expressionism, 19Absurdist theater, 19Acconci, Vito, 97Acker, Kathy, 44, 66, 71, 79, 83, 90, 94,105, 107, 130, 195

Ackroyd, Peter, 76Ada (Nabokov), 16Adams, John, 82, 154–55Adventures of Alyx, The (Russ), 54Afrofuturism, 186After Dark (Murakami), 52afternoon (Michael Joyce), 130, 131Against the Day (Pynchon), 174, 188agency, 57AIDS, 16, 97, 142; see also Angels inAmerica (Kushner)

“Air War and Literature”(Sebald), 190

Ai Weiwei, 155Akira (Otomo), 190Albert Angelo (Johnson), 33Albright, Madeline, 125Aldiss, Brian, 38“Alice in Prague” (Carter), 52Alice in Sunderland (Talbot), 53

“Alice in the Time of the Jabberwock”(Coover), 53

“Alice in the Wasteland” (Lauterbach),53, 57

Alice in Wonderland (Burton), 53, 59Alice in Wonderland (Disney), 58Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland(Carroll), 37, 50–61

Alien (Scott), 115alien abduction, 163–64Aliens (Cameron), 52Allende, Isabel, 78Alphabet, The (Silliman), 95Alphabetical Africa (Abish), 92alter-modernism, 176Althusser, Michel, 69, 72Amalgamemnon (Brooke-Rose), 92Amazing Adventures of Kavalier andClay, The (Chabon), 138

American Psycho (Ellis), 83American Ruins (Vergara), 194Amerika, Mark, 135, 136Amis, Martin, 138Anderson, Laurie, 82, 97, 105, 126,143–44, 160–61, 166

Andrews, Bruce, 93, 179Anecdoted Topography of Chance, An(Spoerri), 41

“Angel” (Brodkey), 162–63“Angel” (Cadigan), 164“Angel, The” (McGrath), 159“Angel Esmeralda, The” (DeLillo), 159,195

“Angel of the North” (Gormley),158–59

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Angelology (Trussoni), 168Angelopolis (Trussoni), 168angels, 157–70Angels in America (Kushner), 142, 143,

157, 158, 159, 160, 161–62, 167–68,171, 196

anime, 153, 190antigravity, 139–46Antonioni, Michelangelo, 29, 39, 41Apocalypse Now (Coppola), 59Arcangel, Cory, 133Archangel Protocol (Morehouse), 167architecture: Brutalist, 29, 192; double-

coding and, 67, 80; emergence ofpostmodernism in, 29–32; irony in,8; late modernist, 176; modernist,29–30, 62; ruin and, 192; urban,30–31

Architecture of the City (Rossi), 30–31Arkham Asylum (Morrison,

McKean), 52art: Abstract Expressionist, 19; Alice’s

Adventures in Wonderland in, 54;conceptual, 96–97; conceptualismin, 97–98; Dada, 18, 37, 43, 96;double-coding in, 67; earlypostmodern, 24; Fluxus, 20, 27, 96;graffiti, 81, 102, 106; in “high artlite,” 146–48; Neoexpressionist, 79,96, 97–98, 97–100, 104, 147, 161;Photorealist, 97; precursors topostmodernism in, 20; resurgenceof, 96–103; “street,” 102; Surrealist,37, 42, 54, 191; theory in, 71; see alsophotography

Ashbery, John, 18, 28, 31, 42, 43As She Climbed Across the Table

(Lethem), 55Atonement (McEwan), 176Atrocity Exhibition, The (Ballard), 24,

64, 88Auden, W. H., 111–12Auster, Paul, 53, 83, 84, 93, 143, 195Autobiography of Red (Carson), 143Automated Alice (Noon), 55

avant-garde, 19–21, 37, 39–40, 67Avant-Pop, 83–85, 135, 148

“Babas del diablo, Las” (Cortázar), 41Babel-17 (Delany), 38, 47Bakhtin, Mikhail, 11, 104Baldessari, John, 99Ballad of Sexual Dependency, The

(Goldin), 105Ballard, J. G., 24, 28, 38, 53, 64, 86, 88,

115–16, 171, 173, 179, 183, 190, 193Banes, Sally, 26Banham, Rayner, 29Banville, John, 112Barney, Matthew, 148–50, 151Barth, John, 35, 38, 41, 45, 65, 67, 74,

78, 92, 135, 136–37, 138Barthelme, Donald, 75, 159, 162, 165Barthelme, Frederick, 79Barthes, Roland, 71, 129, 154Baselitz, Georg, 98Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 81, 102Bastos, Augusto Roa, 78Baudrillard, Jean, 69, 71, 127, 140Beach Boys, The, 39, 40, 47Bear, Greg, 88Beatles, The, 22–23, 36, 39, 40, 47, 56Beat writers, 19Beautiful Losers (Cohen), 34–35, 38, 44Becher, Bernd, 195Becher, Hilla, 195Beckett, Samuel, 3, 16, 19, 71, 78, 123Been Down So Long It Seems Like Up to

Me (Fariña), 38beginning, of postmodernism, 25–29Berger, Peter, 49Berlin, 104Berman, Marshall, 134Berners-Lee, Tim, 131Bernstein, Charles, 94Between C & D (magazine), 107Beuys, Josef, 18, 97Bhabha, Homi, 70Bigelow, Kathryn, 171, 173Big Gundown, The (Zorn), 105

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Black Mountain group, 19, 20Black Panther Party, 27Black Tarantula (Acker), 105Blade Runner (Scott), 39, 86, 107, 154,171, 179, 195

Blake, Peter, 54Blasted (Kane), 127, 173Bleeding Edge (Pynchon), 173, 188Blonde on Blonde (Dylan), 40Blood Music (Bear), 88Bloom, Harold, 69, 136, 157Blown Away (Sukenick), 84, 101,119–20

Blow-Up (Antonioni), 29, 30, 39, 41Blue Pastoral (Sorrentino), 45Bolter, Jay David, 130Bonestell, Chesley, 193–94, 198Book of Laughter and Forgetting, The(Kundera), 159

books, 128–29; see also literature;novels

Boorstin, Daniel, 181Bordando el manto terrestre(Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle)(Varo), 46–47

Borges, Jorge Luis, 9–10, 41, 78,129–30, 133–34

Bowie, David, 81, 82, 164Bowie, Lester, 82–83Bradbury, Malcolm, 135Bradbury, Ray, 38Brathwaite, Edward Kamau, 111Brecht, George, 18“Bridge” trilogy (Gibson), 154, 195Brief, Wondrous Life of OscarWao, The(Díaz), 53, 184

Brodeur, Paul, 52, 114Brodkey, Harold, 162–63Brook, Peter, 53Brooke-Rose, Christine, 35, 36, 38, 54,71, 92

Brooks, Cleanth, 31Broom of the System, The (Wallace), 137Brown, Dan, 168Brown, Denise Scott, 29, 62

Brutalism, 29, 192Buchloh, Benjamin, 98Buenos Aires Affair, The (Puig), 84“Buried Shed” (Smithson), 192Burning Book, The (Gee), 193Burning World, The (Ballard), 115Burroughs, William, 19, 28, 36, 38,43, 44

Burton, Tim, 53, 59Bush, George, 123Bush, George W., 175Butler, Judith, 70Butler, Octavia, 195By Avon River (H. D.), 113

C (McCarthy), 176Cadigan, Pat, 85, 87, 164Cage, John, 18, 19“Cairns” (Gaillard), 195Calle, Sophie, 92–93, 97“Calvin and Hobbes” (comic strip),158, 179

Calvino, Italo, 66, 71, 91, 139–40, 141,147, 179

Cambio de Piel (Fuentes), 17Cameron, James, 52, 144Campbell, Joseph, 45Canticle for Leibowitz, A (Miller), 193capitalism, 1, 13, 73, 93, 134, 140,177–78, 187

Capote, Truman, 28, 44Carpentier, Alejo, 78Carroll, Lewis, 36–37, 50–61Carson, Anne, 143Carter, Angela, 52, 53, 54, 55, 76, 79,114, 193

Carver, Raymond, 79Castle of Crossed Destinies, The(Calvino), 91

Celan, Paul, 19cellphones, 128, 164–65Césaire, Aimé, 111, 113Cha, Theresa, 107Chabon, Michael, 138, 185Chamberlain, John, 19

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Chanan, Michael, 194Changing Light at Sandover, The

(Merrill), 75, 76, 92, 159Chapman, Dinos, 146Chapman, Jake, 146characters: alternate realities of, 16, 74;

interior lives of, 32–33; in mise-en-abyme, 76; ontological hesitation of,148–49

Chelsea Girls (Warhol), 28Chen Jiagang, 195Chia, Sandro, 67, 96, 98, 102Childs, Lucinda, 105Chile, 63China, 27, 63, 82, 128, 144, 152–57, 195“China” (Perelman), 94, 95, 154Chirico, Giorgio Di, 191Christie Malry’s Own Double Entry

(Johnson), 33chronotope, 104Chung Kuo (Wingrove), 128, 142, 156Cigarettes (Calvino), 91“City” (Heizer), 192City of Glass (Auster), 53Cixous, Hélène, 69, 70Clark, Marcia, 158classical architecture, 8Clemente, Francesco, 98Cloud Atlas (Mitchell), 179Clover, Joshua, 126Coetzee, J.M., 44Cohen, Leonard, 24, 34–35, 38,

43–44Cohen, Samuel, 124Cohn, Roy, 196Cold War, 1, 16, 35, 64, 123, 124, 125,

153, 162, 174–75, 193–94; see alsoSoviet Union

Cole, Thomas, 192, 198collage, in literature, 43Collector, The (Fowles), 114colonialism, 70, 110–11, 124, 178; see

also postcolonialism“Colony” (Salle), 99–101Coltrane, John, 82

Complexity and Contradiction inArchitecture (Venturi), 30, 31

Composition No. 1 (Saporta), 41computer generated imagery (CGI),

144–45conceptual art, 96–97conceptualism, 97–98Conceptual Writing, 179–80Concrete Island (Ballard), 115–16Condition postmderne, La (Lyotard), 68“Confidence Trick” (Andrews), 93consciousness, embodied, 14, 15–16construction, in fiction, 41–42Conversions, The (Mathews), 91Coover, Robert, 32, 33, 53, 74, 76, 77, 83,

84, 118–19, 129, 130, 134, 137, 165, 182Coppola, Francis Ford, 59Corrections, The (Franzen), 136Cortázar, Julio, 41–42, 78, 129cosmodernism, 123–24, 152–53, 176Cosmopolis (DeLillo), 174, 179counterculture, 28, 36, 125–26Count Zero (Gibson), 87Course of Empire, The (Cole), 192, 198Crack in Space, The (Dick), 36, 39Crash (Ballard), 24, 64, 86, 88, 115–16,

179, 183Creeley, Robert, 19Cremaster cycle (Barney), 148–50, 151Crichton, Michael, 154Crimp, Douglas, 98crossing over, 80–83Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

(Lee), 144Crumb, Robert, 36Crying of Lot 49, The (Pynchon), 16, 25,

33, 34, 38, 39, 46–47, 49–50, 50–51,54, 55, 59, 64–65, 137

Cryptonomicon (Stephenson), 137, 183Crystal Vision (Sorrentino), 45Crystal World, The (Ballard), 24Cucchi, Enzo, 98Culler, Jonathan, 69Cultural Materialism, 70Cultural Revolution, in China, 27

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cultural studies, 72culture: high vs. low, 37–40, 67, 81, 102culture wars, 125–26Cunningham, Merce, 19cyberpunk, 51, 66, 85–89, 107, 138,182–84; see also science fiction

cyberspace, 141, 167cybertext, 132; see also hypertext fiction“Cyborg Manifesto” (Haraway), 70–71

Dada, 18, 37, 43, 96Dalí, Salvador, 54Danielewski, Mark, 76, 138, 143, 176Däniken, Eric Van, 163Dans le labyrinth (Robbe-Grillet), 16Dark Knight Returns, The (Miller),81, 84

Davenant, William, 109Da Vinci Code (Brown), 168Day (Goldsmith), 138, 179Daydream Nation (Sonic Youth), 105“Day-In, Day-Out” (Bowie), 164deconstruction, 49, 69Defoe, Daniel, 44DeJong, Constance, 79, 107DeKooning, Willem, 19Delany, Samuel R., 19, 38, 47, 71, 74,86, 89, 107

Deleuze, Gilles, 8, 54, 69, 71, 72DeLillo, Don, 53, 55, 64, 74, 76, 83, 146,159, 165, 172–73, 174, 179, 190, 195

Del Tredici, David, 54, 57–58Delvaux, Paul, 191DeMan, Paul, 69, 72depthlessness, 68, 73Derrida, Jacques, 48, 49, 69, 70“Desniansky Raion” (Gaillard), 195Desolation (Cole), 192, 198Detroit, Le (Douglas), 194Detroit, MI, 194–95Detroit: Ruin of a City (Chanan,Steinmetz), 194–95

Dhalgren (Delany), 19, 74, 107Diamond Age, The (Stephenson), 134Díaz, Junot, 53, 184

Dick, Philip K., 28, 35–36, 38–39, 47,86, 154

Dictionary of the Khazars (Pavić), 129Difference Engine, The (Gibson,Sterling), 127

“dirty books,” 37–38Disch, Thomas, 38Disparition, La (Perec), 92Dispatches (Herr), 59Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?(Dick), 39

Doctorow, E. L., 76, 77Documenta 7 (exhibition), 96Dodgson, C. L. see Carroll, LewisDon Quixote (Acker), 44Don Quixote (Cervantes), 51Dorn, Ed, 19, 75Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 11double-coding, 67, 74, 76–77, 80Doubled Flowering (Yasusada), 153Double or Nothing (Federman), 32doubling back, 45–47Douglas, Stan, 194Downtown New York, 104–9Downtown writing, 79Dozois, Gardner, 85Drawings for Projection (Kentridge),149, 151

“Dream Cargoes” (Ballard), 115Dreamhouse (Habens), 53, 55Dream of Perpetual Motion, The(Palmer), 127

Drew, Richard, 146Drought, The (Ballard), 115Drowning by Numbers (Greenaway), 92drugs, psychedelic, 36, 56; see alsopsychedelic experience

Dryden, John, 109Duchamp, Marcel, 18, 43Dum Dee Tweedle (Del Tredici), 58Duncan, Robert, 19Dylan, Bob, 22, 23, 39, 40, 43

East Village, 106–7eclecticism, 1–2, 40, 67, 152

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Eclipse (Shirley), 87Eco, Umberto, 67, 76, 80, 84Egan, Jennifer, 176Ehrmann, Jacques, 48Einstein on the Beach (Glass), 82, 105Eisenman, Peter, 192Eliot, T. S., 31, 114Elkin, Stanley, 159Ellis, Bret Easton, 83Ellison, Harlan, 38Ellison, Ralph, 33embodied consciousness, 15–16Emin, Tracey, 146Empire of the Senseless (Acker), 90,

105, 195Empire of the Sun (Ballard), 190Empson, William, 31Empty Places (Anderson), 144Enchanted Island, The (Dryden,

Davenant), 109End of Alice, The (Homes), 55“End of Books, The” (Coover), 129“End of Postmodernism, The”

(symposium), 134–35Eno, Brian, 81epistemology, 14–15, 18, 67, 73, 78, 84,

85, 131Equilibrium Series (Koons), 147Erickson, Steve, 83, 137“E Unibus Pluram” (Wallace), 136Everett, Percival, 185Everything That Rises Must Converge

(Sze), 151experience, interior, in modernist

novels, 13–14, 32–33Exploding Plastic Inevitable, The

(Warhol), 24Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

(Foer), 146, 173

factuality, lyricism vs., 44Fahrenheit 451 (film), 38, 39Falling Man (DeLillo), 146, 173“Falling Man, The” (Drew), 146Fanon, Frantz, 70

fantasy sports leagues, 181–82Fariña, Richard, 23, 38Farmer, Philip José, 52Faulkner, William, 13–14Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

(Thompson), 60Federman, Raymond, 1, 3, 5, 32, 71, 92,

134–35Female Man, The (Russ), 86feminism, 69, 70, 72, 79, 97, 110,

112, 113Fensch, Thomas, 56Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 19Fetting, Rainer, 98fiction. see hypertext fiction; literature;

metafiction; novels; science fictionFiedler, Leslie, 65Filliou, Robert, 18film: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

in, 52–53, 59; American“underground,” 28; angels in,163–64; cyberpunk, 88; Downtown,107–8; European art cinema, 28;independent, 125–26; science fictionand, 39; September 11 and, 172; TheTempest in, 119–22

Finlay, Ian Hamilton, 191Fischl, Eric, 67, 98Fiskadoro (Johnson), 193Five Angels of the Millennium (Viola),

166Flarf poets, 179–80“Flesh and the Mirror” (Carter), 52Fluxus, 20, 27, 96Foe (Coetzee, J.M.), 44Foer, Jonathan Safran, 146, 173, 185“Following Piece” (Acconci), 97Forbidden Planet (Wilcox), 114–15Foster, Hal, 98, 148Foster, Sesshu, 185Foucault, Michel, 8, 42, 69, 71–72, 108found materials, in literature, 43–44“Fourth Time Around” (Dylan), 40Fowles, John, 53, 76, 77, 114, 164Franzen, Jonathan, 135–36, 137

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Freak Out! (Mothers of Invention), 40“Free Fallin’” (Tom Petty and theHeartbreakers), 140

Freeware (Rucker), 87–88French Lieutenant’s Woman, The(Fowles), 53, 77

Freud, Sigmund, 25Friedman, Ellen, 140, 141Friedrich, Caspar David, 191Frontera (Shiner), 87Frow, John, 3, 4Fry, Roger, 26Fuentes, Carlos, 17, 74, 76, 78Fukuyama, Francis, 124, 128, 174, 189

Gaillard, Cyprien, 195Gaiman, Neil, 52Galatea 2.2 (Powers), 112Gallagher, Catherine, 69García Márquez, Gabriel, 78, 159, 170“Garden of Forking Paths, The”(Borges), 129–30

Gass, William H., 32, 33, 137Gates, Henry Louis, 113Gebbie, Melinda, 53Gee, Maggie, 193Gehry, Frank, 67, 179, 192gender, 13, 42, 63, 64, 70, 72, 113, 125gentrification, 106, 108, 151Géricault, Théodore, 100Gesamtkunstwerk, 148Ghost (Whiteread), 151Ghosts (Banville), 112Gibbons, Dave, 81, 84Gibson, William, 51, 53, 55, 59–60, 85,86–87, 88, 90, 103, 105, 127, 138,141, 154, 174, 182, 183–84, 195

Giles Goat-boy (Barth), 35, 38, 45, 46Gilliam, Terry, 52, 53Ginsberg, Allen, 19, 28, 37, 43, 44Gizzi, Peter, 138Gladiator (Scott), 177–78Glass, Philip, 82, 105globalization, 123–24, 152–53, 156, 178Go Ask Alice (anon.), 56

Godard, Jean-Luc, 39Going After Cacciato (O’Brien), 59Gold-Bug Variations, The (Powers), 137Goldin, Nan, 105Goldsmith, Kenneth, 138, 179Google Glass, 181Gordimer, Nadine, 149–50Gormley, Antony, 158–59graffiti, 81, 102, 106Gramsci, Antonio, 150graphic novels, 36, 52, 53, 81, 127, 153Graves, Michael, 8, 67, 193gravity, 139–46“Gravity’s Angel” (Anderson), 160–61Gravity’s Rainbow (Pynchon), 15–17,35, 53, 64, 72–76, 84, 86, 87,100–101, 159, 160, 185

Gray, Alasdair, 53, 55, 74, 76Great Expectations (Acker), 44Great Jones Street (DeLillo), 64Great Society, The (band), 36–37, 60Green, Jeremy, 126Greenaway, Peter, 82, 92, 119–21Greenblatt, Stephen, 69, 111Green Eyes (Shepard), 88Greenspan, Alan, 140Guattari, Félix, 69, 71Guest, Barbara, 18Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao), 179Gulf War, 123, 127, 130, 140Gulf War Did Not Take Place, The(Baudrillard), 127

Gunslinger (Dorn), 75Guston, Philip, 102

Habens, Alison, 53, 55Hamilton, Ann, 97Handke, Peter, 159Hansen, Al, 18Haraway, Donna, 70–71, 87, 133, 181Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the Endof the World (Murakami), 52, 153

Hargreaves, Alice Liddell, 52Haring, Keith, 81, 102, 161Harry Potter series (Rowling), 142, 168

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Hartman, Geoffrey, 48, 69Harvey, David, 63–64Hassan, Ihab, 66Hatherley, Owen, 176Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 192H. D. (poet), 113Hegirascope (Moulthrop), 132Heizer, Michael, 97, 192Hejinian, Lyn, 95–96Hell’s Angels (Thompson), 44Herbert, George, 12Heroes and Villains (Carter), 193Hero with a Thousand Faces, The

(Campbell), 45Herr, Michael, 59hesitation, 148–49heterotopia, 108Higgins, Dick, 18, 20, 26, 27, 41“high art lite,” 146–48high culture, low vs., 37–40, 67, 81, 102Hillcoat, John, 197hip-hop music, 102, 106, 193“Hiroshima U.S.A.” (Bonestell), 193Hirst, Damien, 146, 147His Dark Materials (Pullman), 127historiographic metafiction, 67, 76–77Hoban, Russell, 121, 193Hoberek, Andrew, 124Homes, A. M., 55Hopscotch (Cortázar), 41–42, 129Horses (Smith), 105House (Whiteread), 151, 191House of Leaves (Danielewski), 76,

138, 143Howe, Susan, 94Howl (Ginsberg), 37humanities, 48Hutcheon, Linda, 67, 76Huyssen, Andreas, 67, 81, 96hypertext fiction, 129–31, 134

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler(Calvino), 91, 179

Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things(Sorrentino), 33, 45

Imagism, 25Immendorf, Jörg, 98, 102imperialism, 110–11, 186; see also

colonialism; postcolonialismImpressionist, The (Kunzru), 138Impressions d’Afrique (Roussel), 42Inception (Nolan), 53, 55In Cold Blood (Capote), 44Indigo, or, Mapping the Waters

(Warner), 113Infante, Guillermo Cabrera, 53Infernal Desire Machines of Dr.

Hoffman, The (Carter), 114Infinite Jest (Wallace), 76, 137In Memoriam to Postmodernism

(Amerika, Olsen eds), 135intensification, 178–87interactive fiction, 41interior experience, in modernist

novels, 13–14, 32–33International Style, 62Internet, 66, 89, 126, 131–32, 134, 140,

167, 180; see also social mediaIn the Country of Last Things

(Auster), 195In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

(Gass), 33“In the Ruins of the Future”

(DeLillo), 190In the Shadow of No Towers

(Spiegelman), 173, 190“Into the Dusk-Charged Air”

(Ashbery), 42Intuitionist, The (Whitehead), 138,

143, 184, 185, 186Invisible Cities (Calvino), 91Invisible Man, The (Ellison), 33Irigaray, Luce, 69, 70Ishiguro, Kazuo, 176, 187Istanbul (Pamuk), 176Izenour, Steven, 29, 62

Jabberwocky (Gilliam), 52Jackson, Shelley, 130Jacobs, Jane, 30

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Jalousie, La (Robbe-Grillet), 16James, David, 176James, Henry, 111, 192Jameson, Fredric, 1, 4–5, 6, 13, 18, 24,44, 68–69, 73, 86, 94, 155, 163, 171

Janson, Horst, 190Japan, 153–55Jarman, Derek, 121–22Jaws (Spielberg), 147Jefferson Airplane, 54–55, 55–56Jencks, Charles, 3, 21, 27, 29, 62–63, 64,66–67, 98, 108, 135, 176, 196

Jenkins, Jerry B., 142Johnson, Barbara, 69Johnson, B. S., 33, 41, 64Johnson, Dennis, 193Johnson, Kent, 153Johnson, Lemuel, 111Johnson, Ray, 19Journal of the Plague Year(Defoe), 44

Joyce, Michael, 130, 131Judson Dance Theatre, 20Junod, Tom, 146Jurassic Park (Spielberg), 144

Kadrey, Richard, 87Kafka, Franz, 9–10, 162“Kafka and His Precursors” (Borges),9–10

Kahn, Louis, 192Kakutani, Michiko, 158Kane, Sarah, 127, 173Kang, Minsoo, 124Katz, Steve, 83, 159Kaurismāki, Aki, 169–70Kelley, Mary, 97Kellogg, Robert, 47, 48Kentridge, William, 149, 151Kerouac, Jack, 19Kerova, Nina, 107–8Kiefer, Anselm, 98, 161, 190Killen, Andreas, 27, 63, 64, 72–73, 136Kim, Myung Mi, 138King Lear (Shakespeare), 108

Kiss of the Spider Woman (El beso de lamujer araña) (Puig), 83

Klein bottle, 46Kline, Franz, 19Knowles, Allison, 18Koch, Kenneth, 18, 75Koons, Jeff, 147Kostelanetz, Richard, 105Kosuth, Joseph, 97Koyanisqaatsi (Reggio), 82, 195Krauss, Rosalind, 98Kristeva, Julia, 69, 70, 154Kruger, Barbara, 71Kubrick, Stanley, 141Kundera, Milan, 24, 78–79, 139, 159Kunzru, Hari, 138Kureishi, Hanif, 108Kushner, Tony, 142, 143, 157, 158, 159,160, 161–62, 171, 196

Lacan, Jacques, 48, 49, 69, 70Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Lawrence), 37LaHaye, Tim, 142Laidlaw, Marc, 85Lamming, George, 111, 112Lanark (Gray), 53, 55, 74, 76Landow, George, 130, 131, 132language: Derrida and, 69;metalanguage, 46, 47; inpoststructuralism, 28, 49

L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, 20, 66, 83,93–96, 138, 179

Last Fall (Sukenick), 146, 174Las Vegas, NV, 195Latin American Boom, 41–42, 78–79Lauterbach, Ann, 53, 57Lawrence, D. H., 37League of Extraordinary Gentleman,The (Moore, O’Neill), 127

Learning from Las Vegas (Venturi,Brown, Izenour), 29–30, 62

“Learning to Curse” (Greenblatt), 111Leary, Timothy, 36Lee, Ang, 144Lee, Chang-rae, 185

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Left Behind series (LaHaye, Jenkins), 142LeGuin, Ursula, 38LeLionnais, François, 90–91Lennon, John, 56Lessing, Doris, 164Lethem, Jonathan, 55, 185LETTERS (Barth), 45, 74, 92Leviathan (Auster), 93, 143Levin, Harry, 3–4, 5Levinas, Emmanuel, 72Levine, Sherrie, 71, 98–99Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 48Lewis, C. S., 164LeWitt, Sol, 97lexias, 129Leyner, Mark, 83, 136Libeskind, Daniel, 192Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy,

Gentleman (Sterne), 9, 10Life During Wartime (Shepard), 88lightness, 139–46Lin, Maya, 192Lippard, Lucy, 96–97Liquid Sky (Tsukerman, Kerova), 107–8literature: Alice’s Adventures in

Wonderland in, 52; Avant-Pop,83–84; brinksmanship in, 33–34;collage in, 43; Conceptual Writingin, 179–80; “dirty,” 37–38; double-coding in, 74, 76–77; Downtown,106–7; early postmodern, 24, 32–37;found materials in, 43–44;interactive fiction in, 41; interiorexperience in, 13–14; inL=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, 20, 66, 83,93–96; Latin American Boom in,41–42, 78–79; low culture in, 37–38;magical realism in, 2, 76–79, 92,184–86; megafictions in, 65–66,72–79; modern, 13–17; OuLiPo, 12,20, 42, 66, 71, 90–92; precursors topostmodern, 9–11; proceduralismin, 90–93; process in, 41–42;rewriting in, 44–45; The Tempest in,109–22; theory in, 71; of urban ruin,

195–96; see also novels; poetry;science fiction

“Literature of Exhaustion, The”(Barth), 41

“Literature of Replenishment, The”(Barth), 65

Living End, The (Elkin), 159Living Theatre, 20Locus Solus (Roussel), 42Logique du sens (Deleuze), 54Lolita (Nabokov), 16, 55Longo, Robert, 67, 88, 98, 99, 103, 133looping, 46–47“Losing My Religion” (R.E.M.), 159Lost Girls (Moore, Gebbie), 53Lost Highway (Lynch), 128“Lost in the Funhouse” (Barth), 138Lotringer, Sylvère, 71, 105low culture, high vs., 37–40, 67, 81, 102LSD, 36, 56; see also psychedelic

experienceLucas, Sarah, 146Luckmann, Thomas, 49“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (The

Beatles), 56Lunch Poems (O’Hara), 43Lüpertz, Markus, 98Lynch, David, 128Lynch, Kevin, 30Lyotard, Jean-François, 1–2, 17, 21,

67–68, 152lyricism, factuality vs., 44

Maciunas, George, 18Mac Low, Jackson, 18Mack, John E., 163Mad Max (Miller), 193Maggot, A (Fowles), 164magical realism, 2, 76–79, 92, 184–86“Magic Poker, The” (Coover), 118–19Magus, The (Fowles), 114Maison de rendez-vous, La (Robbe-

Grillet), 16–17, 35Malone Dies (Beckett), 16Mama Day (Naylor), 113

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manga (graphic novel), 153, 190; seealso graphic novels

Manifest Destiny (Rockman), 174,197–98

Man in the High Castle, The (Dick), 154ManWho Fell to Earth, The (Roeg), 81,164, 167

Man Without a Past, The(Kaurismāki), 169–70

Mao II (DeLillo), 172“Mapping the Postmodern”(Huyssen), 96

Mapplethorpe, Robert, 105, 125Marat/Sade (Weiss), 53Masculine Feminine (Godard), 39Mason, Bobbie Ann, 79Mason & Dixon (Pynchon), 76, 127, 143masques, 11–12, 76, 109, 121–22, 148master narratives, 13, 68, 72, 76–77Mathews, Harry, 42, 91Matrix, The (Wachowski siblings), 52,55, 138, 144–45

Matta-Clark, Gordon, 192Maus (Spiegelman), 81, 105Max Headroom (television program),88, 182–83

Mazursky, Paul, 117–18McCaffery, Larry, 83, 85, 88, 136McCarthy, Cormac, 189, 196–97McCarthy, Tony, 176McCartney, Paul, 23McElroy, Joseph, 32, 33, 75, 159, 160McEwan, Ian, 173, 176McGee, American, 52–53McGrath, Patrick, 159McKean, Dave, 52McLaren, Malcolm, 104megafictions, 65–66, 72–79Merrill, James, 75, 76, 92, 159metafiction, 9, 10, 28, 33, 46, 61, 67,76–77

metalanguage, 46, 47metaphysical detective fiction, 84metatheatre, 46, 109Metrophage (Kadrey), 87

Michaels, Duane, 161Middendorf, Helmut, 98Midnight’s Children (Rushdie), 74Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 30Millennium People (Ballard), 173, 183Miller, Frank, 81, 84Miller, George, 193Miller, Henry, 37–38Miller, J. Hillis, 69Miller, Jonathan, 54Miller, Walter M., 193Mindplayers (Cadigan), 87minimalism, 79minimalist music, 81–82Mirrorshades (Sterling), 85mise-en-abyme, 47, 60, 75–76, 87, 108,119, 121, 148

Mitchell, Adrian, 53Mitchell, David, 179mobile phones, 128, 164–65Möbius strip, 46modernism: architecture in, 29–30, 62;epistemology and, 14–15, 18;literature in, 13–17, 32–33;periodization of, 3–4;postmodernism as impulse within,17–18, 67–68; shift from, 13–17;transition to, 25–26

Molloy (Beckett), 16Mona Lisa Overdrive (Gibson), 87“Mongolian Whiskey” (Katz), 159Montrose, Louis, 69Moon Palace (Auster), 143Moorcock, Michael, 38Moore, Alan, 53, 81, 84, 127Moore, Charles, 8, 67, 192–93Moore, Steven, 10–11Moraru, Christian, 123–24, 176Morehouse, Lyda, 167“More Strange Angels” (Anderson), 144Morrison, Grant, 52Morrison, Toni, 79, 113Mothers of Invention, The, 39, 40Moulthrop, Stuart, 130, 132Mouly, Françoise, 105

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Moxley, Jennifer, 138Mr. Vertigo (Auster), 143Muerte de Artemio Cruz, La

(Fuentes), 17Mulisch, Harry, 160Mullen, Harryette, 138Mulligan Stew (Sorrentino), 74, 76Mulvey, Laura, 70Murakami, Haruki, 52, 153Murray, Elizabeth, 102music: Alice’s Adventures in

Wonderland in, 54–55, 57–58;avant-garde, 39–40; crossing over in,81–82; Downtown, 105; earlypostmodern, 22–24; hip-hop, 102,106, 193; minimalist, 81–82; NewWave, 104; psychedelic, 40, 54–55,55–56, 60; punk, 104; rap, 125; rock,22, 39, 40, 105, 125

mutation, 178–87My Life (Hejinian), 95

Nabokov, Vladimir, 16, 55, 78, 129, 138Naked City (Zorn), 105Naked Lunch (Burroughs), 38Name of the Rose, The (Eco), 67, 80, 84Names, The (DeLillo), 173Namjoshi, Suniti, 112narratives, master, 13, 68, 72, 76–77narrative theory, 48narrativization, 58, 61National Organization for Women

(NOW), 27Nature of Narrative, The (Scholes,

Kellogg), 47Naylor, Gloria, 79, 113Nealon, Jeffrey, 6, 176, 177–78neoclassical architecture, 8Neoexpressionism, 79, 96, 97–100, 104,

147, 161neoliberalism, 1, 63–64, 105–6, 152Neue Staatsgalerie (Stuttgart), 8, 193Neuromancer (Gibson), 51, 87, 88, 90Never Let Me Go (Ishiguro), 187New Brutalism, 29, 192

New Historicism, 69, 111New Journalism, 44New Wave science fiction, 24, 38–39,

115; see also science fictionNew York City, 31, 66, 82, 104–9,

125, 143New York Dolls, 64New York School, 18, 20, 23, 42New York Trilogy (Auster), 84Nietzsche, Friedrich, 8Night at the Movies, A (Coover), 84Nixon, Rob, 111, 112Nixon in China (Adams), 82, 154–55Nolan, Christopher, 53, 55nonfiction novel, 28, 44Noon, Jeff, 55“Norwegian Wood” (The Beatles), 40novels: in 1990s, 127–28;

brinksmanship in, 33–34;construction in, 41–42; earlypostmodern, 24, 32–37; graphic, 36,52, 53, 81, 127, 153; interiorexperience in, 13–14; lengths of, 75;in magical realism, 76, 78–79,184–85; megafictions as, 65–66,72–79; modern, 13–17, 32–33;nonfiction, 28, 44; precursors topostmodern, 9, 10, 11;Pynchonesque, 137–38; see alsoliterature; science fiction

Now Wait for Last Year (Dick), 36, 39NW (Smith), 176Nyman, Michael, 82

O’Brien, Flann, 54O’Brien, Tim, 59obscenity, 37–38, 125October (journal), 98Ofili, Chris, 146O’Hara, Frank, 18, 23, 43O.J. Simpson trial, 158Okri, Ben, 79Olsen, Lance, 135, 136Olson, Charles, 19Omensetter’s Luck (Gass), 32

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Omeros (Walcott), 75“On Angels” (Barthelme), 159,162, 165

Ondaatje, Michael, 176“One and Three Chairs” (Kosuth), 97One Hundred Years of Solitude (GarcíaMárquez), 78

O’Neill, Kevin, 127One Plus One (Godard), 39Only Revolutions (Danielewski), 176Ono, Yoko, 18O’Nolan, Brian, 54onset, of postmodernism, 25–29Ontdekking van de hemel, De (TheDiscovery of Heaven) (Mulisch), 160

ontology, 15–16, 56, 67, 75, 127, 134,148–49, 163, 164

Open Theatre, 20Oppenheim, Dennis, 97Orgel, Stephen, 109Origin of the Brunists, The (Coover), 32Orlando (Potter), 166O Superman (Anderson), 82, 105Otomo, Katsuhiro, 190OuLiPo, 12, 20, 42, 66, 71, 90–92Out of the Silent Planet (Lewis), 164Owens, Craig, 98

Pack of Lies, A (Sorrentino), 45, 92Paik, Nam June, 18, 167painting. see artPale Fire (Nabokov), 16, 129, 138Palmer, Dexter, 127, 185Pamuk, Orhan, 176“Paperback Writer” (The Beatles), 47Parable of the Sower (Butler), 195parareality, 35–36, 36–37paraworlds, 35–37Paris Situationists, 90“Partial Magic in the Quixote”(Borges), 133–34

pastiche, 44, 90–91, 98, 100, 130, 191Pastoral State, The (Cole), 192Patchwork Girl (Jackson), 130pattern poems, 12

Pattern Recognition (Gibson), 51, 53,55, 59–60, 174, 182, 183–84

Pavić, Milorad, 79, 129Penck, A. R., 98Penn Station (New York), 31Perec, Georges, 66, 91–92, 95Perelman, Bob, 94, 154periodization, 3–4, 5–6Perloff, Marjorie, 176Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys), 40“Phantom of the Movie Palace, The”(Coover), 165

Philadelphia Fire (Wideman), 118Phillips, Jayne Anne, 79philosophy, 1–2, 8, 19, 48, 69, 72; seealso epistemology; theory

photography, 96, 98–99, 105, 146,194–95

Photorealism, 97Physical Impossibility of Death in theMind of Someone Living, The(Hirst), 147

Piazza d’Italia (New Orleans), 8,192–93, 196

picaresque, 57Picasso, Pablo, 18“Pictures” (exhibition), 98–99Pictures Generation, 71“Pierre Menard” (Borges), 51Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, 191Piss Christ (Serrano), 125, 147planetarity, 152–53Plascencia, Salvador, 185Players (DeLillo), 173Plowing the Dark (Powers), 145–46poetry: angels in, 158; avant-garde, 28;Flarf, 179–80; found materials in, 43;L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, 20, 66, 83,93–96, 138, 179; long narrative, 75;precursors to postmodern, 12;procedural writing in, 12, 42

pointlessness, 57Polke, Sigmar, 54, 98Pollock, Jackson, 19Pop-Pourri (Del Tredici), 57–58

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pornography, 37–38, 125Portland Public Services Building, 8, 193postcolonialism, 44, 70, 78, 110, 111,

112, 113; see also colonialismpostmagical realism, 184–86postmodernism: defined, 1; examples

of, 2–3; onset of, 25–29; as term, 65“Post-Partum Document” (Kelley), 97post-postmodernism, 175–89postrace aesthetic, 186poststructuralism, 130; language in, 28;

Nietzsche and, 8; theory and, 48–49;in United States, 48

Potter, Sally, 166Pound, Ezra, 25PowerBook, The (Winterson), 53Powers, Richard, 112, 137, 145–46Pricksongs and Descants (Coover),

33, 129Prince, Richard, 71, 99proceduralism, 90–96procedural writing, 12, 41–42process, in literature, 41–42Prospero’s Books (Greenaway), 119–21Pruitt-Igoe housing project (St. Louis),

29, 62–63, 195psychedelic drugs, 36, 56psychedelic experience, 36–37,

55–56, 60psychedelic music, 40, 54–55, 55–56, 60Public Burning, The (Coover), 33, 74,

76, 77Puig, Manuel, 83, 84Pullman, Phillip, 127puns, 42Pynchon, Thomas, 15–17, 25, 33, 34,

35, 38, 39, 46–47, 49–50, 50–51, 53,54, 55, 59, 64, 72–76, 84, 86, 87,100–101, 127, 137, 143, 159, 160,173, 174, 185, 188–89

Queneau, Raymond, 42

race, 184–87Ragtime (Doctorow), 77

rap music, 125; see also hip-hop musicRatner’s Star (DeLillo), 53, 55, 74Rauschenberg, Robert, 19, 155RAW (magazine), 105Rayuela (Cortázar), 41–42, 129REAMDE (Stephenson), 134, 182, 183reality: in The Crying of Lot 49, 34; in

cyberpunk, 87; inGravity’s Rainbow,16, 73, 75, 100; in modernism, 32;parareality, 35–36, 36–37; in PhilipK. Dick, 35–36; in poststructuralism,49; technology and, 133–34; virtual,145–46, 180

reality-pluralism, 163, 166, 168reality television, 64, 140, 180–81recursion, 45–46, 47Reed, Ishmael, 76Reed, Lou, 82“Regard and Abandon” (Yarber),

101–2, 143Reggio, Godfrey, 82, 195Reich, Steve, 82R.E.M., 159renewal, in culture, 37“Report from an Obscure Planet”

(Ballard), 171Retamar, Roberto Fernandez, 111Revolver (The Beatles), 22–23, 36, 40rewriting, 44–45, 51–52, 55Rhys, Jean, 44, 51Richter, Gerhard, 98, 105Riddley Walker (Hoban), 193Riffaterre, Michael, 48Riley, Terry, 82Rings of Saturn, The (Sebald), 176, 190Rising Sun (Crichton), 154Rivers and Mountains (Ashbery), 31, 42Riverworld (Farmer), 52Road, The (McCarthy), 189, 196–97Robbe-Grillet, Alain, 16–17, 35Robinson, Kim Stanley, 128, 142,

156, 193Robison, Mary, 79Rockman, Alexis, 174, 197–98rock music, 22, 39, 40, 105, 125

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Roeg, Nicholas, 81, 164, 167Roiphe, Katie, 53Rome (television series), 178Rose, Barbara, 100Rosencrantz and Guildenstern AreDead (Stoppard), 44, 46, 51

Rossi, Aldo, 30–32, 67Rothenberg, Susan, 98Rothko, Mark, 19Roussel, Raymond, 18, 42Rowling, J. K., 142, 168Rucker, Rudy, 85, 87–88ruin porn, 194–96ruins, 189–99Rush, Richard, 52, 114Rushdie, Salman, 53, 74–75, 76, 77, 79,160, 165–66

Russ, Joanna, 38, 54, 86, 164Ryan, Marie-Laure, 130

Saatchi, Charles, 146Said, Edward, 70Saldívar, Ramon, 185, 186Salle, David, 67, 98, 99–101Sammy and Rosie Get Laid(Kureishi), 108

Sandman (Gaiman), 52Saporta, Marc, 41Sartre, Jean-Paul, 19Satanic Verses, The (Rushdie), 53,74–75, 76, 77, 160, 166

Saturday (McEwan), 173Savage State, The (Cole), 192Scalapino, Leslie, 95Scharf, Kenny, 81, 102Schismatrix (Sterling), 87, 88,89–90

Schnabel, Julian, 98, 102–3Schneeman, Carolee, 97Scholes, Robert, 47, 48Schuyler, James, 18science fiction, 24, 28, 35–36, 38–39,47, 51, 114–16, 141–42; see alsocyberpunk

Scott, Ridley, 115, 139, 177–78, 195

Sea and the Mirror, The (Auden),111–12

Seasons on Earth (Koch), 75Sebald, W. G., 176, 190See the Old Lady Decently (Johnson), 33self-consciousness, 28–29, 47self-expression, 43, 179self-reference, 45–46Semiotext(e) (Lotringer), 71, 105Sensation (Young British Artists),125, 147

September 11 attacks, 62, 124, 128,146, 157, 172–75, 183, 187, 188,189–90, 198

Serrano, Andrés, 125, 147Serres, Michel, 165Seshagiri, Urmilla, 176Several Perceptions (Carter), 53, 54, 55“Shadows Took Shape, The”(exhibition), 186

Shadwell, Thomas, 109Shakespeare, William, 51, 108, 109–22Shammas, Anton, 79Shepard, Lucius, 88Sherman, Cindy, 99Shikasta (Lessing), 164Shiner, Lewis, 85, 87Shirley, John, 85, 87Shklovsky, Viktor, 9Shteyngart, Gary, 185Siegle, Robert, 105, 107Sigg, Uli, 156Sign-Off (Yarber), 143Silliman, Ron, 94–95Silver Clouds (Warhol), 24Simberg, Hugo, 169simulacra, 36, 130, 140–41, 177–78, 181Sinking of the Odradek Stadium, The(Mathews), 91

Sky Changes, The (Sorrentino), 32, 45Slaughterhouse-Five (Vonnegut), 138Sleeping Couple (Yarber), 143Slick, Grace, 36–37, 54–55, 60Smith, John B., 130Smith, Patti, 105

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Smith, Terry, 147Smith, Zadie, 53, 138, 173, 176Smithson, Alison, 29Smithson, Peter, 29Smithson, Robert, 97, 192, 194Smuggler’s Bible, A (McElroy), 32“Snapshots of Caliban” (Namjoshi),

112Snow Crash (Stephenson), 134Social Construction of Reality, The

(Berger, Luckmann), 49social media, 133, 180, 184Soft Machine, The (Burroughs), 28, 36,

38, 43, 44Software (Rucker), 87–88SoHo, 82, 104, 105–6, 108, 150Sollers, Philippe, 154Solnit, Rebecca, 191Some Episodes in the History of

Miranda and Caliban (Hoban), 121Something Else Press, 41Sonic Youth, 105Sontag, Susan, 198Sorrentino, Gilbert, 32, 33, 44–45, 74,

76, 92Sot-Weed Factor, The (Barth), 45“Souls” (Russ), 164Sound and the Fury, The (Faulkner), 14South Africa, 149–50Soviet Union, 1, 123, 128, 152, 174; see

also Cold WarSpahr, Juliana, 138Spanos, William, 66Spartacus (television series), 178speculative fiction, 127–28, 156Spiegelman, Art, 81, 105, 173, 190Spielberg, Steven, 144, 147Spillane (Zorn), 105Spivak, Giyatri, 70Spoerri, Daniel, 18, 41Spook Country (Gibson), 183Sports (Goldsmith), 179“Sprawl” (Gibson), 154Squire, Corinne, 140, 141Stallabrass, Julian, 146

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand(Delany), 89

Star Trek (television program), 38, 115,116

Stations of the Tide (Swanwick), 87,116–17

steampunk, 127, 138Steelwork (Sorrentino), 45Stefans, Brian Kim, 138Stein, Gertrude, 18Steinmetz, George, 194Stephenson, Neal, 134, 137, 138,

182, 183Sterling, Bruce, 85, 87, 88, 89–90,

127, 138Stern, Robert A. M., 67Sterne, Lawrence, 9, 10Stevens, Wallace, 71Still She Haunts Me (Roiphe), 53Stirling, James, 8, 193Stoppard, Tom, 44, 46, 51Storming the Reality Studio

(McCaffery), 85Storyspace (software), 130“Strange Angels” (Anderson), 166Strange Days (Bigelow), 171“street” artists, 102“Strip, The” (Yarber), 101structuralism, 28, 48; see also

poststructuralism“Structure, Sign, and Play in the

Discourse of the Human Sciences”(Derrida), 48

Stuart court masques, 11–12“Stuck Inside of Mobile with the

Memphis Blues Again” (Dylan), 22Stunt Man, The (Brodeur), 52, 114sublimity, 159–60Such (Brooke-Rose), 35, 36, 38, 54“Suffering Channel, The” (Wallace), 173Sukenick, Ronald, 71, 83, 84, 101, 119,

146, 174Super-Cannes (Ballard), 53Super Mario Clouds (Arcangel), 133surfiction, 32, 71

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Surrealism, 37, 42, 54, 191suspension, 146–52suspension of disbelief, 42Swanwick, Michael, 87, 116–17Swift, Graham, 76, 77Synners (Cadigan), 87Sze, Sarah, 150–52

Talbot, Bryan, 53Tar Baby (Morrison), 113Taymor, Julie, 113technology. see Internet; mobile phonestelevision: Alice’s Adventures inWonderland in, 52, 54, 58–59; angelsand, 165–67; Gulf War and, 127;plurality and, 166–67;postmodernism and, 136; reality, 64,140, 180–81

Tel Quel (journal), 19, 154Tempest, The (Jarman), 121–22Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 51, 101,109–22

temporality, 4Tender and the Damned, The (Yarber),143, 161

Tenneson, Joyce, 161Terra nostra (Fuentes), 17, 74, 76Thelma and Louise (Scott), 139theory, 48–49, 65, 66–72, 130Third Policeman, The (O’Brien), 54Thomas, D. M., 76Thompson, Hunter S., 28, 44, 54, 60Three Hundred Things a Bright BoyCan Do, 43

Through the Arc of the Rainforest(Yamashita), 138, 143

Tiananmen Square, 155Tibetan Book of the Dead, 23, 36Tideland (Gilliam), 53Tillman, Lynn, 79, 107Time’s Arrow (Amis), 138Titanic (Cameron), 144Tjanting (Silliman), 94–95“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” (Borges),133–34

Tlooth (Matthews), 42, 91“Tomorrow Never Knows” (TheBeatles), 22–23, 36, 40

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, 140To Repel Ghosts (Young), 102“To Repel Ghosts” (Basquiat), 102–3Tournier, Michel, 44Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, NewJersey, A (Smithson), 194

Tours of the Black Clock (Erickson), 137Traffic (Goldsmith), 179Transavantgarde, 96Trawl (Johnson), 33Tres tigres tristes [Three TrappedTigers] (Infante), 53

Tropic of Cancer (Miller), 37–38Trouble on Triton (Delany), 107Truffaut, François, 39“Truman Show, The” (Weir), 181Trussoni, Danielle, 168Tsukerman, Slava, 107–8“Twenty Evocations” (Sterling), 89Twombly, Cy, 19

Ubik (Dick), 36, 39UFOs, 163Ullens, Guy, 156Ullens, Myriam, 156Unbearable Lightness of Being, The(Kundera), 139–40

Underworld (DeLillo), 76, 159, 172, 195Une tempête (Césaire), 111, 113uneven development, 5Unfortunates, The (Johnson), 41Universal Baseball Association, Inc.,J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (Coover),33, 182

Unnamable, The (Beckett), 16UnteleportedMan, The (Dick), 36, 39, 47Until the End of the World (Wenders),139, 141, 171

“Untitled Film Stills” (Sherman), 99

V (Pynchon), 16Vacuum Flowers (Swanwick), 87

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vampires, 186–87Varley, John, 86Varo, Remedios, 46–47Velvet Underground, The, 24, 39, 82Vendredi (Tournier), 44Venturi, Robert, 29–30, 31–32, 62, 67Vergara, Camilo José, 190, 194, 198“Very OldMan with EnormousWings,

A” (García Márquez), 159, 170Victory Garden (Moulthrop), 130video games, 52–53, 132–33Vie mode d’emploi, La (Life a User’s

Manual) (Perec), 91–92Vietnam War, 59Vietnam War Memorial (Washington,

D.C.), 192Viola, Bill, 166Virillio, Paul, 71virtual experience, 180–81virtual reality, 145–46, 180Visit from theGoon Squad, A (Egan), 176Vizenor, Gerald, 83Voice in the Closet, The (Federman), 92Vollmann, William T., 75, 83, 137Vonnegut, Kurt, 138

Wachowski, Andrew, 52, 55, 144Wachowski, Lana, 52, 55, 144Waiting for Godot (Beckett), 19Walcott, Derek, 75“Walking and Falling” (Anderson), 143Wallace, David Foster, 76, 83, 126,

136–38, 173, 177Warhol, Andy, 24, 28, 37, 39, 64, 82Warner, Marina, 113Waste Land, The (Eliot), 31, 114Watchmen (Moore, Gibbons), 81, 84Waterland (Swift), 77Water with Berries (Lamming), 111, 112Watten, Barrett, 94Weather, The (Goldsmith), 179“We Can Remember It for You

Wholesale” (Dick), 39Wegner, Phillip, 124, 172weightlessness, 139–46

Weir, Peter, 181Weiss, Peter, 53Wenders, Wim, 82, 139, 141, 159, 161,

171, 190“Westward the Course of Empire

Takes Its Way” (Wallace), 136Westwood, Vivienne, 104Wetware (Rucker), 87–88“What Was Postmodernism?” (Frow),

3, 4Whitehead, Colson, 138, 143, 184, 185,

186, 187White Noise (DeLillo), 83, 165, 173“White Rabbit” (Jefferson Airplane),

54–55, 55–56, 60“White Rabbit” (The Great Society),

36–37Whiteread, Rachel, 151–52, 191White Teeth (Smith), 53, 138, 173Wichita Vortex Sutra (Ginsberg), 43, 44Wideman, John Edgar, 118Wide Sargasso Sea (Rhys), 44, 51Wig, The (Wright), 28, 33–34, 35, 38Wilcox, Fred, 114–15Wild Sheep-Chase, A (Murakami), 153Wild Shore, The (Robinson), 193Williams, Emmett, 41Williams, Raymond, 69Willie Master’s Lonesome Wife

(Gass), 33Willing, Nick, 58–59Wilson, Brian, 39Wilson, Peter Lamborn, 166Wilson, Robert, 52, 82, 105Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, The

(Murakami), 52, 153Wines, James, 192Winfrey, Oprah, 136Wingrove, David, 128, 142, 156Wings of Desire (Wenders), 82, 157,

159–60, 161, 190Winterson, Jeanette, 53“Wolf-Alice” (Carter), 52Women and Men (McElroy), 33, 75,

159, 160

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Woolf, Virginia, 23, 25, 26, 166worlds within worlds, 35–36World Trade Center (New York), 62,172, 175; see also September 11attacks

World War I, 25World Wide Web, 131; see alsoInternet

“Wounded Angel, The” (Simberg), 169Wright, Charles, 28, 33–34, 35, 38Wright, Stephen, 83writing. see literature; novels

X-Files, The (television series), 128,164–65

Yale French Studies (journal), 48, 49Yale School, 69Yamasaki, Minoru, 62, 175Yamashita, Karen Tei, 138, 143, 185

Yarber, Robert, 101–2, 142–43, 161Yasusada, Araki, 153, 191Years of Rice and Salt, The (Robinson),128, 156, 157

You Bright and Risen Angels(Vollmann), 75, 137

Young, Kevin, 102Young British Artists, 125, 146–47YouTube, 184Yu, Charles, 185

Zappa, Frank, 40Zed and Two Noughts, A (Greenaway),92

Zelazny, Roger, 86Zero History (Gibson), 183Ziegler, Heide, 135zombie apocalypse, 187Zone One (Whitehead), 186, 187Zorn, John, 105

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