The “gradually swelling rumors” of the future:
(I know it’s kind of long, so see approximately 5:53-13:45 for the most applicable/interesting bits if you’d like, though you’ll miss out on a little of the context/terminology)
The “gradually swelling rumors” of the future:
(I know it’s kind of long, so see approximately 5:53-13:45 for the most applicable/interesting bits if you’d like, though you’ll miss out on a little of the context/terminology)
This is a really provocative set of associations. It makes me want to map Arthur Mervyn and see how its social networks could be visualized.
I wonder, in terms of the novel’s medical content, what the implications would be. My contention is that the novel forwards a climatist/sanitationist perspective, in other words it doesn’t want us to believe the fever is spread by person-to-person contagion. But the emphasis here on the spread of information is absolutely something the novel is concerned with — spreads of influence & behavior — right? It would be a fun exercise to map the novel’s social relations with those concerns in mind, or perhaps to test the limits of its anti-contagionist positions.
PS: Thinking abt the video with reference to Arthur Mervyn also reminded me of this project.