Spaces resonate with “psychic data” in White Noise. As Murray tells Jack, “Everything is concealed in symbolism, hidden by veils of mystery and layers of cultural material” (37). The psychic data is everywhere, but is it intelligible? In the midst of a busy supermarket, Jack Gladney imagines that there exists \u201cover it all, or under it all, a dull and unlocatable roar, as of some form of swarming life just outside the range of human apprehension\u201d (36). For this week\u2019s blog, spend some time in a similar crowded, noisy space and observe the background hum. And try, as Jack and Murray do, to interpret the \u201ccodes and messages\u201d that abound in the mundane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Spaces resonate with “psychic data” in White Noise. As Murray tells Jack, “Everything is concealed in symbolism, hidden by veils of mystery and layers of cultural material” (37). The psychic data is everywhere, but is it intelligible? In the midst of a busy supermarket, Jack Gladney imagines that there exists \u201cover it all, or under… Continue reading Codes and Messages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[50,48,49,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}