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Chapter 14 - The Internet

Everything Is Connected: DeLillo and Internet Culture

from Part III - Media and Pop Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2022

By
Andrew Strombeck
Edited by
Jesse Kavadlo
Jesse Kavadlo
Affiliation:
Maryville University of Saint Louis, Missouri
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Summary

Reading DeLillo’s work as a whole, readers can trace the trends that shape internet culture: from the very beginning, DeLillo has concerned himself with the connectiveness, surveillance, and information overload that characterize the contemporary Internet. While the Internet provides only a small role in a few of DeLillo's novels, the idea of the Internet, and its various ways of creating both connection and distance, loom large throughout DeLillo's fiction.

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Don DeLillointernetmediatechnology
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Don DeLillo In Context , pp. 136 - 143
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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