Mailer's Psychology of Machines

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Tabbi, Joseph. "Mailer's Psychology of Machines." PMLA 106 (March 1991): 238-50.

On Norman Mailer's "The Psychology of Machines," in . . . Fire on the Moon, with some comments on S. Butler's Erewhon and T. Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (listed under Fiction). Mailer's psychology of machines "can be seen as an assertion . . . [of] the persistence of freedom and contingency despite corporate efforts to dominate and restrain" (341-42, quoting 342).