PhD student writing on Thomas Pynchon and the Posthuman Gothic. Literary & critical theory, aesthetics, ecology. All views are my own, etc. 
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“The unknown world acts like a safety valve for the known world” (Bonnet 2017). As a space in which the mythic remains unobserved or into which the known may unfold, a “phantasmic portion of the world” exists on the horizon, enclosing all that is “heterogeneous and illegitimate.”pic.twitter.com/BuAgO8ZXTZ
I’m reminded of America’s frontier in Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon: the “Rubbish-Tip for subjunctive Hopes, for all that may yet me true,” as yet unknown to “the bare mortal World that is our home, and our Despair” (345). In our globally-mapped age, whence the dreams of other worlds?
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