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T1 Material Encoding and Libidinal Exchange: The Capital Culture Underneath Don DeLillo's Underworld
A1 Clippinger, David
AB Whereas much critical attention has focused upon how DonDeLillo’s novels offer a sustained critique of the postmodern conditionwithin American culture, this essay uses DeLillo’s most recent novel,Underworld, as a lens to explore how American postmodernity hasmanifested as a limbo where certainty and value have drifted free fromthe “real.” The essay traces how the fracturing of the real has historicalprecedent in American Puritan ideology, and how the postmodern renditionof Puritanism in twentieth century is characterized best as emptymaterialism and displaced spiritual desire that departs from the Puritanstance of material wealth as the sign of divine calling. Drawing uponDeLillo’s critique, I argue that the “real” and the spiritual in Americanculture have been erased by the pervasive force of despiritualized capitalism.
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RD 21-may-2024