Noumenon - References in Popular Culture

References in Popular Culture

  • Tao Lin references, discusses & appears to support the idea of noumenon in his essay on the state of the novel.
  • Vladimir Nabokov uses the word noumenon in chapter 9 of Bend Sinister:
"He had never indulged in the search for the True Substance, the One, the Absolute, the Diamond suspended from the Christmas Tree of the Cosmos. He had always felt the faint ridicule of a finite mind peering at the iridescence of the invisible through the prison bars of integers. And even if the Thing could be caught, why should he, or anybody else for that matter, wish the phenomenon to lose its curls, its mask, its mirror, and become the bald noumenon?"

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