Monthly Archives: April 2011
The point of the children in White Noise
In the process of working on my final paper, I came across an aspect of White Noise that can’t exactly be placed in a category or applied to one of our widely discussed themes of death, disaster and media. This … Continue reading
But what about the epilogue? (Blood Meridian)
At the end of an inconclusive book we are presented with a cryptic and brief passage that poses interesting questions in interpretation. The passage begins describing an unknown man that “[progresses] over the plain by means of holes which he … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, End, Epilogue
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Knowledge in Media
“What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything?” (White Noise ch. 21) In the novel White Noise … Continue reading
“Bad Education”
I’m finding the education/humanities vs. science discussion quite compelling, and thought you might want to take a look at this short article from Malcolm Harris, “Bad Eduction,” from the excellent lit. mag, n+1. The main focus of the article is … Continue reading
The Role of Foreboding in Blood Meridian
“The dying man sang with great clarity and intention and the riders setting forth upcountry may have ridden more slowly the longer to hear him for they were of just these qualities themselves.” (125) Cormac McCarthy masterfully paints a picture … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, foreboding, foreshadowing
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White Noise in Relation to Protocol
When relating the novel White Noise to another text, Protocol, by Alexander Galloway provides a clear connection in the way networks function and how necessary the flow of information throughout a system actually is. Galloway constructs this by showing how … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Galloway, Don DeLillo, Protocol, White Noise
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the ending to Blood Meridian
Ambiguous endings are tough. They always leave people speculating, theorizing, and arguing with each other over what they think the author means to say, when ultimately we can never truly, 100 percent know everything that happens in the end. Such … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, End, the judge, The Kid
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The Burial of the Dead
“April is the cruellest month, breeding/ Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/ Memory and desire, stirring/ Dull roots with spring rain./ Winter kept us warm, covering/ Earth in forgetful snow, feeding/ A little life with dried tubers./ Summer surprised … Continue reading
TV and Death in White Noise
“‘TV is a problem only if you’ve forgotten how to look and listen,’ Murray said. ‘My students and I discuss this all the time. They’re beginning to feel they ought to turn against the medium” (DeLillo, 50). Television plays an … Continue reading
Institutionalization dicussion topic,
This weekend I watched a documentary called Exit Through the Gift Shop that struck me as very pertinent for the conversation we had during our last lecture. The documentary is ultimately produced by Banksy, easily the most famous street artist … Continue reading →