돈 드릴로의 『포인트 오메가』를 통한 포스트-포스트모더니즘 읽기: 포스트-포스트모더니즘 시대에서 자아의 의미
Reading Post-Postmodernism through Don DeLillo’s Point Omega: The Meaning of Self in Post-Postmodernism
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The postmodern characteristics which have represented our time have brought many changes these days. Therefore, many scholars, including Alan Kirby, argue that postmodernism is over and a new period is coming. One of the new features of the new period is about the subject. In modernism, the subject was the center and the very important pivot. But in postmodernism, this center started rocking and then finally disappeared, as some scholars express it had died completely. Now in this era, which we will call post-postmodernism from this point forward, the subject who died in postmodernism has come to life again. In this case, the subject can mean many things such as a text, a self, a center, and a father. This paper covers Don DeLillo’s recent novel Point Omega and investigates how these periodical changes are reflected in it, especially in regards to the question of the subject or self. In this material and technological society in which we live, anyone can watch us and even tract or trace us. But ironically, we can lose ourselves and live anywhere, without anybody noticing. We can literally be ignored and forgotten. Everyone is not just interested in me, and nobody wants to know me. For this reason, we can live by hiding in our own world, just like “the man at the wall” in Point Omega. Furthermore, it is just the same as autism. The title of this novel is borrowed from Theihard de Chardin’s theory, “omega point,” which refers to the maximum point of the evolving universe and the final point of complexity and consciousness. This point contains each thing as an individual and as a whole, so everyone lives by oneself, and at the same time, everyone lives all together as one big whole. And in this connection, ‘love’ should be there as a link. DeLillo shows that how our society has been changed from postmodernism into post-postmodernism and suggests that in this changing society we need to evolve toward the “omega point,” which connects the subjects and the others all together.
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The postmodern characteristics which have represented our time have brought many changes these days. Therefore, many scholars, including Alan Kirby, argue that postmodernism is over and a new period is coming. One of the new features of the new period is about the subject. In modernism, the subject was the center and the very important pivot. But in postmodernism, this center started rocking and then finally disappeared, as some scholars express it had died completely. Now in this era, which we will call post-postmodernism from this point forward, the subject who died in postmodernism has come to life again. In this case, the subject can mean many things such as a text, a self, a center, and a father. This paper covers Don DeLillo’s recent novel Point Omega and investigates how these periodical changes are reflected in it, especially in regards to the question of the subject or self. In this material and technological society in which we live, anyone can watch us and even tract or trace us. But ironically, we can lose ourselves and live anywhere, without anybody noticing. We can literally be ignored and forgotten. Everyone is not just interested in me, and nobody wants to know me. For this reason, we can live by hiding in our own world, just like “the man at the wall” in Point Omega. Furthermore, it is just the same as autism. The title of this novel is borrowed from Theihard de Chardin’s theory, “omega point,” which refers to the maximum point of the evolving universe and the final point of complexity and consciousness. This point contains each thing as an individual and as a whole, so everyone lives by oneself, and at the same time, everyone lives all together as one big whole. And in this connection, ‘love’ should be there as a link. DeLillo shows that how our society has been changed from postmodernism into post-postmodernism and suggests that in this changing society we need to evolve toward the “omega point,” which connects the subjects and the others all together.
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