It explores the manner in which Don DeLillo's characters experience technocultural everyday decade after decade. The changing technoculture is resisted at times by the characters, it points out to a transitional mode of being. This state does not dehumanize DeLillo's characters as much as reveals their humanity in the postmodern world
It explores the manner in which Don DeLillo's characters experience technocultural everyday decade after decade. The changing technoculture is resisted at times by the characters, it points out to a transitional mode of being. This state does not dehumanize DeLillo's characters as much as reveals their humanity in the postmodern worldHinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Laila Sougri, PhD is a Moroccan translator, writer, and researcher. She has published numerous translations, short stories, and papers. Some of her current interests include methodologies of interdisciplinarity, American literature, memory studies, and speculative realism in literature and psychology.
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Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Don DeLillo's Technoculture The Interrelatedness of Culture and Technology "Radiance in dailiness" Prototypical extensions in Ratner's Star and Zero K Clearing technological determinism: "they shoot horses, don't they?" Breaching the Beyond: Attaining the Extraordinary through the Ordinary "The electric stuff of the culture" Promethean shiny shield in White Noise and The Names Television as "Waves and Radiations" in Americana and White Noise 2 Latent History and Techno-Progress The Implication of Image Technologies in the Rise of Latent History "Latent history" in Great Jones Street and Running Dog From truth to technocultural possibilities within history Historical Uncertainty and the Televisual Event in Libra Kennedy's filmed assassination: a pioneer of historical uncertainty Oswald's third line of history: the fall of historical causality 3 Reconceptualizing the Real The Simultaneity of Recording and Receiving Events: Underworld and Falling Man Visual insertion of the unusual in dailiness The superreal and underreal aspects of the televisual event The Reprogrammed Mind in Mao II, The Body Artist, and The Silence The emergence of a third reality Mediated gaze: "the virus of the future" 4 The Phenomenology of Technocultural Space "Technocultural space" in End Zone Perception at the margins of civilization The ontological internalization of outer space Tele-visuality in the desert Encounters with Technocultural Parallax in Players The complexity of postmodern architecture Pammy's phenomenological mode of being 5 Perception in the Informational Era The "Dominant Metaphor" of Postmodern Technoculture Information in DeLillo's novels The vitality of information: a reading of Cosmopolis DeLillo's Posthumans Seeking the beyond: the other side of the screen Transhumanism: the emancipation of consciousness in Point Omega and Zero K Toward a virtual reality Conclusion Works Cited Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Don DeLillo's Technoculture
The Interrelatedness of Culture and Technology
"Radiance in dailiness"
Prototypical extensions in Ratner's Star and Zero K
Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Don DeLillo's Technoculture The Interrelatedness of Culture and Technology "Radiance in dailiness" Prototypical extensions in Ratner's Star and Zero K Clearing technological determinism: "they shoot horses, don't they?" Breaching the Beyond: Attaining the Extraordinary through the Ordinary "The electric stuff of the culture" Promethean shiny shield in White Noise and The Names Television as "Waves and Radiations" in Americana and White Noise 2 Latent History and Techno-Progress The Implication of Image Technologies in the Rise of Latent History "Latent history" in Great Jones Street and Running Dog From truth to technocultural possibilities within history Historical Uncertainty and the Televisual Event in Libra Kennedy's filmed assassination: a pioneer of historical uncertainty Oswald's third line of history: the fall of historical causality 3 Reconceptualizing the Real The Simultaneity of Recording and Receiving Events: Underworld and Falling Man Visual insertion of the unusual in dailiness The superreal and underreal aspects of the televisual event The Reprogrammed Mind in Mao II, The Body Artist, and The Silence The emergence of a third reality Mediated gaze: "the virus of the future" 4 The Phenomenology of Technocultural Space "Technocultural space" in End Zone Perception at the margins of civilization The ontological internalization of outer space Tele-visuality in the desert Encounters with Technocultural Parallax in Players The complexity of postmodern architecture Pammy's phenomenological mode of being 5 Perception in the Informational Era The "Dominant Metaphor" of Postmodern Technoculture Information in DeLillo's novels The vitality of information: a reading of Cosmopolis DeLillo's Posthumans Seeking the beyond: the other side of the screen Transhumanism: the emancipation of consciousness in Point Omega and Zero K Toward a virtual reality Conclusion Works Cited Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Don DeLillo's Technoculture
The Interrelatedness of Culture and Technology
"Radiance in dailiness"
Prototypical extensions in Ratner's Star and Zero K
