Tag Archives: White Noise
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
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
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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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
White Noise, Technology, and Death
In White Noise Delillo emphasizes death as a constantly recurring theme. Although death is always being mentioned and thought of by the characters it does not seem to have meaning or value. They watch people die on the television but … Continue reading
Tragedy: A Break from Reality
We have spent two weeks pondering the importance of tragedy in Don DeLillo’s White Noise. I believe that tragedy provides a break from normalcy to the characters in this book. The characters are locked into monotonous and repetitive lives. “You’re … Continue reading
Coping with death
In our last two novels, Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, and Dom DeLillo’s White Noise we have encountered death throughout the books. The authors have two very different ways of dealing with death. In Blood Meridian, McCarthy’s character stare death in … Continue reading
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What’s real and what’s simulation
One of the major themes we’ve discussed in White Noise is simulation. Throughout the story, simulation and reality are blurred together and in some cases switched. I think one of the most notable times this reversal can be seen is … Continue reading
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Tagged Don DeLillo, Murray Siskind, Simulation, White Noise
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“White Noise” in White Noise
White Noise is a very original book that brings up several contradictions in and of itself, and also suggests some things about modern (or post-modern, whatever) life in the suburbs. But what exactly is the “white noise” of the story … Continue reading
Violence and Disaster: Blood Meridian vs White Noise
Blood Meridian and White Noise both seem to deal with the threat of violence, but obviously in different ways and to different extents. While Blood Meridian explores the violence in western America in the 19th century, White Noise investigates violence … Continue reading
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Tagged Blood Meridian, Cormac McC, Don DeLillo, Violence, White Noise
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