2023
DOI: 10.30608/hjeas/2023/29/1/6
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Becoming-Mineral: Desert Timescapes and Post-Neoliberal Geontopower in Don DeLillo’s Point Omega

Peggy Karpouzou

Abstract: In the age of the Anthropocene, capitalism’s expansion and damage to the planet can ultimately be seen as “becoming extinction” (McBrien). This essay discusses post-neoliberal structurations of space, time, and consciousness by examining the “desert timescapes” featured in Don DeLillo’s philosophical novel, Point Omega (2010). The desert, placed at the novel’s heart, is analyzed as a prominent religious, aesthetic, and philosophical topos of the crisis of human subjectivity. Furthermore, the investigation of t… Show more

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