![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, DeLillo’s novel isn’t a fantasy of some simple return to the real and authentic. The preoccupation with security enables a turn to existential matters that the virtual abstractions of finance have seemingly made inaccessible. The future-mindedness of financial risk management is counteracted by the lethal threat constructions that drive the concern with security and that emphasize finitude and mortality. ![]() In DeLillo’s homecoming tale of a mega-rich currency trader, financial risk and the contemporary cult of security come together as the novel’s two thematic axes. The essay focuses on Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis in order to show that this novel stages the appeal of (in)security as resting on its promise to offer an alternative to the future-fixation of the risk regime of financial capitalism. This essay aims to come to terms with the cultural power of security, which-so this article contends-is better understood as a fascination with insecurity. ![]()
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