sunday salons

White Noise by Don DeLillo

February 25, 2007

Don De Lillo,s White Noise may be familiar but becomes more eerily relevant year by year. It has to do with the way consciousness seems to be taken over by media scripts, commercials, "reality show" idioms. They are taking the place of the religious or scientific orders in which many of us made sense of things in the past. What does the language of calamity mean for us, for the classroom? What does the orchestration of "terror"? There will be much to talk about. 

"In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals."
–Don DeLillo
Portrait of Don DeLillo Countesy of Wikipedia