XXXSpace shares with Thomas Pynchon’s novel the intuition that military technology is never limited to its military function. In the universe of the book, the V-2 missile is both an object of mathematical precision and an erotic and mystical fetish, an “arc” that crosses the sky as a symbol of desire and death. The zine revisits this same imagery, bringing to light the clash between clinical detail—ranges, speeds, diagrams—and the symbolic weight of a world obsessed with the spectacle of destruction. Just as Pynchon transforms the missile into a metaphor for cultural collapse, XXXSpace confronts the contemporary saturation of explosive and phallic images, shifting the gaze to the tension between pornography, space conquest, and war. If the 1973 novel recorded the transition to the nuclear age, the zine collects fragments of the present as testimony to another historical threshold: the moment when technical violence becomes naturalized on the screen, and the missile ceases to be just a weapon to become language, spectacle, and a promise of transcendence.
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