Simulacrum America: The USA and the Popular Media

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Elisabeth Kraus, Carolin Auer
Camden House, 2000 - Всего страниц: 259
A collection of articles that analyses the role of the media in America from a deconstructionist viewpoint.

This collection of original essays is a response to the paradigm shift that has taken place in cultural studies in the wake of postmodernism and poststructuralism. Such concepts as 'truth' or 'reality' have been increasingly called into question, since the realization that our experience of 'the real' is always mediated through an "empire of signs," as Roland Barthes put it. After a predominantly optimistic evaluation of the effects of the media in the 1960s (by Marshall McLuhan, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and others), a growing awareness of the total manipulation of society by mass-media imagery has emerged. The very concept of 'representation' has become problematic, witness the influential essay "The Precession of Simulacra" by the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard, in which he defines simulation as "the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal"- the current boom in 'realityTV' comes to mind. In the seventeen years since the publication of Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, ever more sophisticated technologies based on the computer as the simulacrum machine par excellence have offered us powerful new means of manipulating data - and consequently, means of manipulating, editing, and inventing 'reality.' The aim of this study is to unmask false 'representations', showing history, personal and cultural identity (especially gender and racial identities), the simulacrum of speed -- and American 'reality' itself -- to be constructs.

 

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Cyborgs and Cybernetic Discourse
7
Fiction Writing in the Face
23
An American Dilemma in
37
Experiments on Living Matter or How to Save
49
AvantPop Literature
64
Narrativity and Identity
75
Cyberpunks
87
Pat Cadigans
107
Music Markets
149
Subverting the Tonto Stereotype in Popular Fiction
161
The Simulated
169
Simulated Sexualities
189
Hollywood and the Decline of European Empire
205
Simulacrum America
217
Works Cited
229
Contributors
245

Information Velocity and
122
Visions of Culture
136

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