Preface: Don DeLillo's contraband: taking stock, from Americana to Zero K
Controlled & uncontrolled substances. Drugs
Alcohol
Erotica & stolen art
Weapons
Knives
Guns
Nukes
Underworlds & undercurrents. Cults, criminal organizations, spy agencies
Coincidences & conspiracies
Secrets & Rumors
Undergrounds
Counterpoints & counternarratives. Bandwidths
Battle of the bands
Media & mediatization. Newspapers, magazines, tabloids
Radio
Television
Telephone
Tape recorders & answering machines
Internet
Arts of duplicity. Painting & sculpture
Theater, performance art, graffiti
Photography
Film
Video, home movies, newsreels
Music
Double takes. Retrospection & memory
"Live" perception
White noise, the world hum
Double vision
Repetitions & mirror images
Writing in tongues. Literature
Numbers
Writing
Foreign languages
Glossolalia
Linguistic shrapnel
Words for words. Names
Words
Defining words
Simple words
Letters
Punctuation
Countersignature
Acknowledgements.