Technology and Postmodern Subjectivity in Don DeLillo's Novels

More than any other major American author, Don DeLillo has examined the manner in which contemporary American consciousness has been shaped by the historically unique incursion into daily life of information, military, and consumer technologies. In DeLillo’s fictions, technological apparatuses are not merely set—pieces in the characters’ environments, nor merely tools to move the plot along, they are sites of mystery and magic, whirlpools of space—time, and convex mirrors of identity. Telev...