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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
List of contents
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 DogFrom truth to technocultural possibilities within history
Historical Uncertainty and the Televisual Event in
LibraKennedy'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 ManVisual 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 SilenceThe emergence of a third reality
Mediated gaze: "the virus of the future"
4 The Phenomenology of Technocultural Space
"Technocultural space" in
End ZonePerception at the margins of civilization
The ontological internalization of outer space
Tele-visuality in the desert
Encounters with Technocultural Parallax in
PlayersThe 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 KToward a virtual reality
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
About the author
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.
Summary
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
