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White Noise explores several themes that emerged during the mid-to-late twentieth century, e.g., rampant consumerism, media saturation, novelty academic intellectualism, underground conspiracies, the disintegration and reintegration of the family, human-made catastrophes, and the potentially regenerative nature of human violence.
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“Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that’s their order of importance.”
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