Kellner, Douglas, 3, 17, 22, 31–32, 95, 100, 119, 188

Kennedy, John F., 93, 103–106, 108–110, 152–155

Koran, 200

Kristeva, Julia, 162, 168–171, 178

Lacan, Jacques, 48, 99, 100, 168

Lane, Richard, 15

language, xiii, xiv, 5, 14, 29, 31–34, 36, 38, 42, 45, 47–50, 64, 72, 75–76, 78, 80–83, 89, 90–92, 101, 108, 117–118, 120, 124–126, 128, 148, 162, 168, 170, 172–175, 177–178, 180

LeClair, Tom, 36

Lefebvre, Henri, 5

Lentricchia, Frank, 4–5, 106–107, 115–116

Levinas, Emmanuel, 195–196, 199–200

loss, xii, 20–21, 28, 61, 64, 66–68, 71, 76, 79, 87, 90–91, 98, 117, 127–128, 148–150, 173, 190, 192, 203

Lyotard, Jean Francois, xiv

Marx, Karl, xii, 3, 5–6, 15, 22–24, 32, 48, 67, 76, 94, 97–98, 100, 173, 188

McCauliffe, Jody, 115–116

McCluhan, Marshall, 17

money, 3, 18, 21, 24, 27, 53, 55–56, 59, 76–77, 96, 163, 166, 184, 188, 201–202

need, 13, 15, 17–18, 20, 23, 26, 36, 54, 76–81, 94, 138, 156, 194

Nixon, Richard, 140–141

novel, xiv, 109, 111, 113, 114–115, 121–122, 125, 127

Ob, 78, 192

Osteen, Mark, 58, 96, 106–107, 115, 125, 127–128, 161, 183

Oswald, Lee Harvey, 93–94, 99, 102, 104–107, 109–110

Parrish, Timothy, 136, 141, 147, 151

phallus, 61, 162–166

Poster, Mark, 97, 103

Ritzer, George, 138

Saussure, Ferdinand de, xii, 5, 23–25, 31, 77, 173

Schwartz, Barry, 188

September 11, 2001, 54, 63–66, 68–70, 72, 86, 88, 123, 130, 191–192, 198, 201–202

Shields, Rob, 10–11

sign exchange, 63, 67, 79, 87, 91–92, 149, 163, 177

signification, 15, 24–27, 17, 29, 32–33, 41, 46–48, 55–56, 61, 67, 78–79, 81–83, 88, 91–92, 107, 129–130, 141–142, 145, 147, 150, 154, 156, 162, 172–177

silence, xiii, 19, 43, 49, 63, 110, 147, 150–151, 177

Simmons, Ryan, 114–115

Singer, Alan, 109–110

spectacle, 1, 16, 55, 60, 63, 70, 120–121

Stearns, William, 122

suicide, 59, 60–62, 65–67, 71, 86–87, 89, 122–123, 161, 171, 176, 182, 198

symbolic exchange, 61–62, 64–65, 67, 71–72, 76, 78–79, 81, 83, 87–88, 91–92, 116, 143, 145, 150–151, 163, 165, 173–174

symbolic reversibility, 171–172