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Fictions of the Visual Cortex
Stephen Burn connects Don DeLillo's fifteenth novel, Point Omega, with the author's long-running investigation into the structures of the mind. Using an elusive narrative architecture, images from a slowed-down film, and moments of second- and third-order observation, the novel dramatizes the mind's pre-conscious fiction-making processes.
The Cybernetic Turn: Literary into Cultural Criticism
Joseph Tabbi reviews the essay collection Simulacrum America.