Abstract
In his paper, in Pynchon's 'Entropy' and Lefebvre's The Production of Space, Jason Snart examines Thomas Pynchon's short story Entropy for the ways in which it deals with the kinds of disorder(s) associated with entropy as a thermodynamic and informational concept. Those concepts are installed as a framework within which to consider cultural studies work like Henri Lefebfre's thought in his The Production of and Ludwig von Bertalanffy's general systems theory and themodynamics: disorder is rendered not as confusion, but rather as a state of potential energy and productivity and Lefebvre's and Bertalanffy's concepts serve to show how disorder can inform critical work. Jason Snart, in Pynchon's 'Entropy' and Lefebvre's The Production of Space page 2 of 11 CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 3.4 (2001):
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