"This book examines the manifestation of technoculture in everyday life as represented in Don DeLillo's work. It is argued that DeLillo advocates the weaving of technological suggestions with cultural imperatives. Technology does not eradicate one's capacity to form spiritual behaviors. DeLillo has spent decades reiterating this point in parallel with technological advance. By anatomizing the American technoculture, the author emphasizes the cultural change that accompanies technological progress. He gives particular attention to the meaning of being human in a time when technology is implicated in most if not all aspects of life. The study discloses various concealed involvements of technoculture in the characters' everydayness while attempting to dodgetechnological determinism. Consequently, the study highlights thematic settings wherein technology and culture collaborate rather than subdue to each other. Therefore, technoculture in DeLillo's novels is read through a broad context. Instances include the everyday use of technology as extension, the implication of image technologies in redefining history, the reconceptualization of the ethical and behavioral aspects of reality, the development of tele-visual and embodied perceptions in various technocultural spaces, and the involvement of information technologies in reconstructing the beliefs, behaviors, and activities of the posthuman"--
This book is the first to explore technoculture in all of Don DeLillos novels. From Americana (1971) to The Silence (2020), the American author anatomizes the constantly changing relationship between culture and technology in overt and layered aspects of the characters experiences. Through a tendency to discover and rediscover technocultural modes of appearance, DeLillo emphasizes settings wherein technological progress is implicated in cultural imperatives. This study brings forth representations of such implication/interaction through various themes, particularly perception, history, reality, space/architecture, information, and the posthuman. The chapters are based on a thematic structure that weaves DeLillos novels with the rich literary criticism produced on the author, and with the various theoretical frameworks of technoculture. This leads to the formulation and elaboration on numerous objects of research extracted from DeLillo's novels, namely: the theorization of DeLillos "radiance in dailiness," the investigation of various uses of technology as an extension, the role of image technologies in redefining history, the reconceptualization of the ethical and behavioral aspects of reality, the development of tele-visual and embodied perceptions in various technocultural spaces, and the involvement of information technologies in reconstructing the beliefs, behaviors, and activities of the posthuman. One of the main aims of the study is to show how DeLillos novels bring to light the constant transformation of technocultural everydayness. It is argued that though such transformation is confusing or resisted at times, it points to a transitional mode of being. This transitional state does not dehumanize DeLillos characters; it reveals their humanity in a continually changing world.
It explores the manner in which Don DeLillos characters experience technocultural everyday decade after decade. The changing technoculture is resisted at times by the characters, it points out to a transitional mode of being. This state does not dehumanize DeLillos characters as much as reveals their humanity in the postmodern world
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