在《K氏零度》中,唐·德里羅探索了當代美國社會生活如何被物化為一道消費景觀,以及如何以日常生活的切身體驗抵制景觀權力。景觀社會借助無所不在的媒介影像隱秘地操縱著人們的價值取向和行為方式。當人們沉迷于景觀社會的幻影時,德里羅把目光轉向日常生活的點點滴滴。小說主人公竭力從日常生活的具身體驗中,獲得最本真的生命體驗,以此抵御景觀社會所造成的種種去身體化后果。

In Zero K, Don DeLillo describes life collapsing into spectacle within contemporary American culture, and relatedly, probes the possibility of resisting spectacular power through embodied everyday experience. Through a surfeit of images, the spectacular covertly manipulates modes of living. Amidst mass obsession with the imagistic spectacular, DeLillo turns instead to the minor and the quotidian. The protagonist of Zero K both seeks an embodied life and resists the disembodiment proffered by a society structured by the spectacle.