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- Title
The Future's Epic Now: The Time of Security and Risk in Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis.
- Authors
Voelz, Johannes
- Abstract
In this essay, the author reflects on the cultural life of security in the contemporary moment based on Don DeLillo's novel "Cosmopolis." The author explains the factors that make the insightful lies of the novel in the way it merges the logic of security with the logic of risk. The author also presents an argument that can help explain how security has taken up a central position in the current cultural imagination.
- Subjects
INTELLECTUAL life; SECURITY management; DELILLO, Don, 1936-; POSTSECULARISM; MODERN philosophy
- Publication
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, 2013, Vol 12, Issue 3, p8
- ISSN
1547-4348
- Publication type
Essay