Hallo PynGen,
ich bin zwar kein Luhmann-Experte, aber ein großer Fan von Thomas Pynchon. Für Anglistik habe ich mal etwas über The Crying of Lot 49 in Bezug auf Georg Simmel geschrieben.
Folgende Literaturhinweise kennst du sicher schon:
Lot 49: Science and the Novel of Systems By: Olster, Stacey. pp. 66-75 IN: Schaub, Thomas H. (ed. and preface); Approaches to Teaching Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Other Works. New York, NY: Modern Language Association of America; 2008. (book article)
On Oneworldedness; Or Paranoia as a World System By: Apter, Emily; American Literary History, 2006 Summer; 18 (2): 365-89. (journal article)
The Formation of the Rocket-Nation: Abstract Systems in Gravity's Rainbow By: Nagano, Yoshihiro; Pynchon Notes, 2003 Spring-Fall; 52-53: 81-99. (journal article)
Media Systems in The Crying of Lot 49 By: Seed, David. pp. 15-33 IN: Copestake, Ian D. (ed. and introd.); American Postmodernity: Essays on the Recent Fiction of Thomas Pynchon. Oxford, England: Peter Lang; 2003. 223 pp. (book article)
Pynchon and DeLillo By: Parrish, Timothy L.. pp. 79-92 IN: Dewey, Joseph (ed. and introd.); Kellman, Steven G.; Malin, Irving; UnderWords: Perspectives on Don DeLillo's Underworld. Newark, DE; London, England: U of Delaware P; Associated UP; 2002. 219 pp. (book article)
Systems Theory in the Fiction of Thomas Pynchon By: Jenkins, Ronald Alfred; Dissertation Abstracts International, 1992 Aug; 53 (2): 498A. U of Toronto. (dissertation abstract)
Post-Industrial Society and Post-Modern Literature: A Systems Approach to Gravity's Rainbow By: Sapanaro, Richard G.; Dissertation Abstracts International, 1987 May; 47 (11): 4085A-4086A. (dissertation abstract)
Pynchon's Language: Signs, Systems, and Subversion By: Russell, Charles. pp. 251-272 IN: Clerc, Charles (ed.); Approaches to Gravity's Rainbow. Columbus: Ohio State UP; 1983. 307 pp. (book article)
A Place Dependent on Ourselves': The Reader as System-Builder in Gravity's Rainbow By: Westervelt, Linda A.; Texas Studies in Literature and Language: A Journal of the Humanities, 1980; 22: 69-90. (journal article)
Wahrscheinlich bist du ohnehin schon weiter, als das ich dir irgendwelche Anregungen geben könnte. Ich frage mich nur, ob ich deine Arbeit am Ende mal lesen darf. Fände es wirklich sehr spannend, es mal aus der Perspektive zu lesen.
LG,
Rochester