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Table of Contents
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Foreword |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction: The Number Justifies Itself: Don DeLillo, Jean Baudrillard, and Consumer Culture |
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Chapter 1: Shopping for Its Own Sake: Don DeLillo's System of Objects |
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Chapter 2: Escaping the Third Person Singular: Americana and the Semiotic Challenge |
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Chapter 3: Another Media Event? Players and the Specter of Terrorism |
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Chapter 4: Calculating Terror: Signification and Symbolic Exchange in The Names |
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Chapter 5: Seduction of the Ambivalent: Fatal Strategy in Libra |
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Chapter 6: One Beat Away from Elevator Music: Mao II and the Artist in Opposition |
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Chapter 7: To Vandalize Their Eyeballs: Underworld's Graffiti Instinct |