This essay examines re-making of communication, media, and consumer culture in Don DeLillo's White Noise and Mao II from James W. Carey's theoretical framework. DeLillo's novels dramatize how consumerism, media ritual, and mass spectacle form individual and group identity in late capitalism. According to Carey's distinction between the transmission and ritual models of communication, the essay explains how DeLillo portrays supermarkets, TV, and terrorism as symbolic activity that constructs cultural membership while disassembling significant individuality. Carey's comments on media as a process through which reality gets constructed and affirmed explain why DeLillo satirizes meaning breakdown within consumer culture and spectacular culture. Whereas White Noise is the intrusion of everyday life by consumer ritual and mediatized catastrophe, Mao II extends this attack to a global scale, illustrating how terror and crowd spectacle displace literature as cultural capital. In juxtaposing Carey's ideas with more recent work on DeLillo, this essay argues that both novels expose the paradox of communication in late capitalism: its power to construct shared symbolic reality and, simultaneously, unground identity and commodify it.