In critiques, pop takes on the torque of the critic, a necessary strategy to somehow delimit its space, and make it graspable, if not meaningful. This geography of trash is in need of some attention. Murray is engaged in a debate with his students on the true substance and significance of television, and the media-saturated Gladney household serves as a laboratory. Bit 5 You have to learn to look. You have to open yourself to the data.
TV offers incredible amounts of psychic data.
It opens up ancient memories of world birth, its welcomes us into the grid, the network of little buzzing dots that make up the picture pattern. There is light, there is sound. The medium practically overflows with sacred formulas if we can remember how to respond innocently and get past our irritation, weariness and disgust. The popular life as depicted by DeLillo is gripping in its familiarity. And when children dream, they dream in the consumer-unconscious.