포스트모던 사회와 군중, 그리고 전체주의: 돈 들릴로의『백색잡음』과『마오 II』
A Media-saturated Culture, the Crowd, and Totalitarianism: Don DeLillo’s White Noise and Mao II
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In White Noise, DeLillo depicts the tendency of the modern individuals to be drawn to collective identity, and connects it with the postmodern culture dominated by images and media. In Mao II focusing on totalitarian movement and terrorism in our time, the connection between the mass mind and the postmodern culture is both intensified and simplified into the dichotomous opposition of western individualism and non-western totalitarianism. DeLillo is well aware that media and images in consumer society promote similar lifestyles and collective identity and make people vulnerable to mass manipulation. His biased insistence on western individualism, however, prevents him from understanding the fact that individualism goes hand in hand with consumer society and is hollowed out and emptied of meaning. According to Arendt, totalitarianism is not opposed to western individualism as is usually assumed. On the contrary, it derives from the illusionary belief of liberal democracy and individualism which takes away every possible communities and every senses of belonging from people. DeLillo's judgemental attitude on the family and the belief in his two works implies the dilemma western individualism faces in the media-saturated consumer culture.
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In White Noise, DeLillo depicts the tendency of the modern individuals to be drawn to collective identity, and connects it with the postmodern culture dominated by images and media. In Mao II focusing on totalitarian movement and terrorism in our time, the connection between the mass mind and the postmodern culture is both intensified and simplified into the dichotomous opposition of western individualism and non-western totalitarianism. DeLillo is well aware that media and images in consumer society promote similar lifestyles and collective identity and make people vulnerable to mass manipulation. His biased insistence on western individualism, however, prevents him from understanding the fact that individualism goes hand in hand with consumer society and is hollowed out and emptied of meaning. According to Arendt, totalitarianism is not opposed to western individualism as is usually assumed. On the contrary, it derives from the illusionary belief of liberal democracy and individualism which takes away every possible communities and every senses of belonging from people. DeLillo's judgemental attitude on the family and the belief in his two works implies the dilemma western individualism faces in the media-saturated consumer culture.
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