Living in a simulacrum: how TV and the supermarket redefines reality in Don DeLillo’s White Noise

This paper examines the impact of simulation, hyperreality, and consumerism on Don Delillo's novel "White Noise". It discusses how the novel pictures technology and mass media as an empire of signs and codes that erase or implode meaning. TV, radio reports and tidbits, and medical ima...

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Main Author: Ghashmari, Ahmad
Format: Article
Language:Catalan
Published: Asociación Cultural 452ºF; Universitat de Barcelona 2010-07-01
Series:452ºF
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Online Access:http://www.452f.com/images/pdf/numero03/ghashmari/03_452f_misc_ghashmari_eng.pdf