InampampnbspNovels of Displacement Fiction in the Age of Global CapitalampampnbspMarco Codeb assesses the state of fiction in our time an age defined by the combined hegemony of global capital and software. Codeb argues that presentday displacement originates in the dualism of power that pervades our polarized society and in the sweeping deterritorialization that is affecting people objects and signs. As the ties between subjectivity and territory break being in the world means being displaced. Rather than narrating how subjectivity can mark a place novels of displacement convey the crisis of subjectivitys connection to place. ampampnbsp Using four works as case studiesBernardo CarvalhosampampnbspNove noitesampampnbspDaniel SadasampampnbspPorque parece mentira la verdad nunca se sabeampampnbspZadie SmithsampampnbspWhite Teethampampnbspand Mathias nardsampampnbspZoneCodeb investigates how globalization displacement and technology inform our understanding of subjectivity and ones place in the world. Coming from different literary traditionsBrazilianPortuguese Spanish English and FrenchampampnbspNovels of Displacementampampnbsptraces the development of displacement caused by organized crime migration and war. Ultimately what emerges from this study is evidence of how cultures of untruth damage but do not destroy human agency. ampampnbsp