Traduzir Thomas Pynchon

Art/Official Insemination: Social Reproduction in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon

Analyzing the Pynchon Gate Protocol

I analyzed the Pynchon Gate Protocol, a pseudonymous mail reply handling protocol introduced by Sassaman, Coen, and Mathewson, and in particular BitTorrent’s suitability for it’s purpose within that protocol. After an unfulfilling attempt at using PRISM, I wrote a BitTorrent simulator and used that to verify the feasibility of an attack delaying the distribution of the mail and possibly removin...

Reassessing the Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon Wiki: a new research paradigm?

Since the Against the Day Wiki launched in October 2006, the Pynchon Wiki collection has received over twenty thousand edits, making it one of the largest, dedicated literary reference Wikis. One can now view and add annotations to all seven of Pynchon's novels – only Slow Leaner and his nonfiction remain sans Wiki -, and a loose community of over four hundred contributors have done so. This pa...

Thomas Suddendorf

Thomas Suddendorf is Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia. He was born and raised in Germany, but has spent most of his adult life in the Antipodes. He studies the development of mental capacities in young children and in nonhuman animals to answer fundamental questions about the nature and evolution of the human mind. He has received honors and distinctions for bo...

Thomas Metzinger

Why Is a Representationalist Analysis Useful? In this chapter I will briefly sketch the outline of a representationalist theory of subjective experience. (See also Metzinger 1993, forthcoming). A representationalist theory is one that chooses to analyze its target properties – those aspects of the domain which eventually are to be explained – on a certain level of description: by describing con...