Tag: virtual reality

• Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice: Feds, Heads, and Threads

  The books of Thomas Pynchon are so chock-full of cool references, I had to make two collages for this blog entry. Pynchon is one of my favorite writers. I recently read his noir-hippie novel, Inherent Vice (The Penguin Press, New York, 2009). The term “inherent vice” is a legal term that refers to  physical properties of…

  Bill Ectric

  January 31, 2011

  Alfred Korzybski, Feds’N’Heads, general semantics, Inherent Vice, LSD, noir, San Narciso Community College, the internet, Thomas Pynchon, Timothy Leary, virtual reality