Home Issues Films Contributors Submissions About Subscriptions Merch Issue 36: IdentityIn RainbowsLindsey Romain illustration by Brianna Ashby and Harper Ashby R – I am four and my mother is braiding my hair so I can look like Dorothy. I think all children have this need for affectation; there was my Ariel phase and my Belle phase but there is most important...
CHAPTER 8 Working for the Nazis Once conditioned at the Casino Hermann Goering, Slothrop seems so well synced to the rocket that They can set him quasi-free in the Zone to see what he turns up, his colonized mind posing little threat to the system. His case represents the extent to which domination in Gravity’s Rainbow depends on institutions that condition subjects’ behaviors in ways simulating self-control and masking the Manchurian Candidate–style mind control that it actually entails. S...
