『코스모폴리스』: 신자유주의적 파워엘리트의 초상
Cosmopolis: Portrait of a Neoliberal Power Elite
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Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, a postmodern American fiction set in 2000, portrays Eric Packer’s self-destructive one-day journey across midtown Manhattan. Eric Packer, a 28-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager, is a 21st century neoliberal power elite. According to William Davies, advanced neoliberalism produces new types of power elites different from Millsian sense of those, called ‘cyborg intermediaries’: elites which operate largely within the system of codes, data, screens and prices. This paper considers Eric Packer a typical ‘cyborg intermediary’ and concentrates on analyzing how he exemplifies the negative effects of the neoliberal system as a power elite following his Joycean journey. The aim of this study is threefold: First, I present a critical review of neoliberalism to understand Cosmopolis from the Foucauldian perspective. Next is an exploration of two distinct neoliberal subjects in Cosmopolis; Eric Packer, the power elite and Benno Levin, the social outcast on the basis of the theoretical framework above to show the contradiction of the neoliberal government. Finally, this research illuminates Eric Packer’s yearning for existential subjectivity as a strategy of resisting the neoliberal power.
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Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, a postmodern American fiction set in 2000, portrays Eric Packer’s self-destructive one-day journey across midtown Manhattan. Eric Packer, a 28-year-old multi-billionaire asset manager, is a 21st century neoliberal power elite. According to William Davies, advanced neoliberalism produces new types of power elites different from Millsian sense of those, called ‘cyborg intermediaries’: elites which operate largely within the system of codes, data, screens and prices. This paper considers Eric Packer a typical ‘cyborg intermediary’ and concentrates on analyzing how he exemplifies the negative effects of the neoliberal system as a power elite following his Joycean journey. The aim of this study is threefold: First, I present a critical review of neoliberalism to understand Cosmopolis from the Foucauldian perspective. Next is an exploration of two distinct neoliberal subjects in Cosmopolis; Eric Packer, the power elite and Benno Levin, the social outcast on the basis of the theoretical framework above to show the contradiction of the neoliberal government. Finally, this research illuminates Eric Packer’s yearning for existential subjectivity as a strategy of resisting the neoliberal power.
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