Toxic Events: postmodernism and DeLillo's "White Noise"

Considers DeLillo's treatment of the state of postmodernism in White Noise, a novel in which rationality is always on the brink of being overwhelmed. At times conceding to the view that all modes of sense making are necessarily provisional, this is not accepted without a struggle, and several characters engage in a never to be satisfied search for authenticity beyond successive areas of commodified culture.