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Brothers Against the Day: Dostoevsky, Derrida, Pynchon and Baudrillard at the End of the Sign

This article weaves together the philosophical contours of Derridean deconstruction, Baudrillardian hyperreality, and semiotic theory to interrogate the literary universes of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Thomas Pynchon. A Semiotic Descent into Hyperreality, Paranoia, and the Collapse of Meaning

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Entropy and the Implosion of Meaning: Pynchon in the Age of Baudrillard’s Hyperreality

This essay explores the work of Thomas Pynchon through the critical apparatus of Jean Baudrillard, with particular focus on the concepts of simulation, hyperreality, and the implosion of the real. Rather than offering a totalising reading, this essay stages a dialogue between two elusive figures, Pynchon, the postmodern novelist of paranoia and systems, and Baudrillard, the post-Marxist theorist of simulacra and the symbolic collapse of the real.

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Unravelling the Double: Dostoevsky Through the Lens of Derrida

This article explores Fyodor Dostoevsky’s literary and philosophical contributions through a deconstructive lens, guided by the thought of Jacques Derrida. The aim is not to superimpose Derrida upon Dostoevsky as if one were merely a tool to decode the other, but rather to explore the dialogic potential of their proximity, where the one haunts, and is haunted by, the other.

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