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(Before Reading 1) Thoughts on White Noise by Don DeLillo. Quick Summary of Postmodernism
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มี.ค. 2020
- I'm pro vaccine. CV19 is real. Just because there's reason to not fully trust Institutions of power doesn't mean the virus isn't real and deadly.
DeLillo is Anti Fascist
DeLillo was pointing out how Byzantine corporations have made an industry out of fear and misinformation largely to distract from the realities of living in late stage capitalism (such as the responsibility to protect the public), so oppressive power structures are held in tact, and we as people, such as the characters, are effectively relegated to nihilism in that we feel a distortion between real human nature and manufactured human nature (empiricism, capitalism, etc). Modern people living in a flux of real and fake conspiracy while we work capitalist jobs and can only have ownership over our own interpretation of reality, yet everyone is covering up their actual desires/wants and passively aggressively diverting them to constructed narratives or beliefs.
How a postmodern masterpiece predicted the emergency industry. I am vaccinated. This video is not intended to support any anti vaccine conspiracy but more so point to sociological phenomena about how people living in "hyper-real postmodern capitalism" are prone to living in manic paranoia and how capitalism (indifferent to human suffering) would rather worry about markets as opposed to safety. Yet, while also making an environment to profit off the insanity such as Qanon which in itself is just as an apologist movement for capitalism and thus the destruction it creates. #covid19 #books #philosophy #film #theory
I love this book. Just finished reading it for the first time tonight. Totally brilliant. Oddly realistic given Covid19 world, which is very scary to think about.
DeLillo is a cool writer. Yep I first read this probably 10 years ago and it's still a favorite. It's really a criticism of everything really as far as consumerism, shadowy corporations, Big pharma, conspiracy theory culture, aka no one really knowing what's going on, but the narrative is anchored by a family story. The easiest book to get postmodernism, brilliant. My issue with people like JB Peterson is he tried to make it political which is false, because pomo is really relativistic worldview, not a political ideology. That's why I don't like him. He assumed people would take his words at face value
Thank you so much for being a palatable theorist.
Thanks! A lot of uncanny similarities to what's going on and this book
Friday, March 13, the Los Angeles Unified School district shut down. I couldn't help but to think about "the airborne toxic event" and this novel.
i noticed a few similariteis between covid 19 and the book white noise
Right on. It's a good book. But I'm vaccinated. My intent to this wasn't to spread any conspiracy about the virus that's killed 400k plus people; but more so how people would take the virus and make their own subjective truths and conspiracy and paranoia about it
I DONT KNOW that i can find a video where's White Noise and Covid are in the same title
This is what I chose to read first in lockdown 👍🏼 40 pages left.
How long did it take you to read?