ABSTRACT
As Don DeLillo suggests in White Noise (1984), mass-cultural artifacts frequently serve a doubly delusory function. On the one hand, publications such as the National Enquirer vulgarize the spiritual by offering a “weekly dose of cult mysteries” (5) to audiences who turn to tabloid pages for “everything that we need that is not food or love…. The tales of the supernatural and the extraterrestrial. The miracle vitamins, the cures for cancer, the remedies for obesity. The cults of the famous and the dead” (326).
