![]() Written in the midst of the long and disastrous US incursions in the Middle East, DeLillo and Negarestani raise important political questions about the ecological realities of the War on Terror. ![]() ![]() This essay argues that Don DeLillo’s Point Omega (2010) and Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials (2008) make strong cases for the novel’s continuing ability to complicate and illuminate contemporaneity. On the other, there has been an increasing sobriety about human finitude, especially considered in the light emerging discussions about deep time. On the one hand, the cold war national fantasy of Mutually Assured Destruction has multiplied, producing a diverse array of apocalyptic visions. The twenty-first century has seen a transformation of twentieth-century narrative and historical discourse. ![]()
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