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Fetishism and Form: Advertising and Ironic Distance in Don DeLillo’… “The function of this new industry would be to recruit the best creative talent of the society and to create a culture in which desire and identity would be fused with commodities to make the dead w…
Systems fiction: a novel way to think about the present “At their best, when systems novels veer right into science fiction, they can hold infinity itself in their purview – and none come closer to that than Kim Stanley Robinson. Robinson’s seminal Mars trilogy opens with humanity’s efforts to colonise our cosmic neighbour in Red…
Dangerous Don DeLillo “I was born on Nov. 20, 1936,” he begins, leaning an inch or two forward, toward the tape recorder. He sticks to the essential facts. Except for a short stint in Pennsylvania when he was quite young, he was brought up in the Fordham section of the Bronx, a neighborhood…
Crowding out death: White Noise it still is… THIS is an America where no one is responsible or in control; all are receptors, receivers of stimuli, consumers. Some join Simuvac, which signs up local school children as volunteer victims in simulated evacuations (“Some people,” Gladney tells his daughter in response to a question about the…
That’s why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things. Don DeLillo, White Noise (via quotespile) Here here. (via lotusgurl)