SOURCE: "The Politics of Fear: DeLillo's Postmodern Burrow," in Reading the Postmodern Polity: Political Theory as Textual Practice, University of Minnesota Press, 1992, pp. 122-39.
In the following essay, Shapiro discusses the textual framework provided in Don DeLillo's White Noise for experiencing fears that are typically obscured in modern life by a complex of social codes and distanced by the prevalence of electronic media.
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