Don DeLillo and Society’s Reorientation to Time and Space

An Interpretation of Cosmopolis
dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage57en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage70en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume1en_US
dc.contributor.authorNoble, Stuart
dc.contributor.editorCarmody, Heather
dc.contributor.editorGlauser, Michelle
dc.contributor.editorHerrmann, Sebastian M.
dc.contributor.editorPitzing, Alexandra
dc.contributor.editorSchönmeier, Lisa Sylvia
dc.contributor.editorWeise, Lars
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-29T07:40:29Z
dc.date.available2022-09-29T07:40:29Z
dc.date.issued2008en_US
dc.description.abstractThis essay reads Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis as a novelization of social theories of time and space as expressed across various academic disciplines. Changing conceptions of time and space point to an underlying change in the social structure. I thus view DeLillo’s novel as social theory. Economist Jeremy Rifkin recently wrote, “[t]he great turning points in human history are often triggered by changing conceptions of space and time. Sometimes, the adoption of a single technology can be transformative in nature, changing the very way our minds filter the world” (89). Eric Packer lives in a world with a multitude of adopted new technologies. His reflections on language embody this mental filtering. Cyber-capital, and digitization in general, represent these new technologies. Packer’s desire to “live on a disc” (105), epitomizes the novel’s portrayal of changing conceptions of time and space. This paper thus explores expressions of the inadequacy of contemporary language under these “turning points in human history.” It demonstrates how statements on language reflect society’s mental filtering or changing orientation to time and space. Cosmopolis could be viewed as a redescription project.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.54465/aspeers.01-06
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2365
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.issn18658768en_US
dc.relation.journalaspeersen_US
dc.relation.journalaltemerging voices in american studiesen_US
dc.rightsL::CC BY 3.0en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:810en_US
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldliterarystudiesen_US
dc.titleDon DeLillo and Society’s Reorientation to Time and Spaceen_US
dc.title.alternativeAn Interpretation of Cosmopolisen_US
dc.typearticleen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
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