In particular, White Noise enacts a prediction made by Aldo Leopold in his essay "The Land Ethic," by showing how the dominance of the television has created a divide between humanity and the land, to the point that the environment as represented onscreen has little mental connection to the environment of the viewer. As a result of this, even natural disasters have become commodified, so that "conservation" takes the form of film recording, because according to the novel, disasters only have value when they can be seen and broadcast across the world. In effect, White Noise demonstrates how the specific...
The novel reveals the extent to which Leopold's ideas have permeated any discussion of land and the environment in America, even if those ideas have not bee carried out to their end.
Works Cited
DeLilo, Don. White Noise. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1985. Print.
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press,
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