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
Biography
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.
