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- noun The state or condition of being
hyperreal . - noun semiotics, philosophy The inability of
consciousness to distinguishreality fromfantasy , especially intechnologically advancedpostmodern cultures. - noun
Hyperrealism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lost beneath it all is the real John Lennon, a persistent problem for a pop and political culture so drenched in hyperreality that it can't stop saying Really? or Real Americans or Keeping It Real or other market-oriented deviations of the term.
Scott Thill: John Lennon: Working Class Mythmaker Scott Thill 2010
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Lost beneath it all is the real John Lennon, a persistent problem for a pop and political culture so drenched in hyperreality that it can't stop saying Really? or Real Americans or Keeping It Real or other market-oriented deviations of the term.
Scott Thill: John Lennon: Working Class Mythmaker Scott Thill 2010
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Lost beneath it all is the real John Lennon, a persistent problem for a pop and political culture so drenched in hyperreality that it can't stop saying Really? or Real Americans or Keeping It Real or other market-oriented deviations of the term.
Scott Thill: John Lennon: Working Class Mythmaker Scott Thill 2010
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Instead people live in the "hyperreality" of simulations in which images, spectacles, and the play of signs replace the concepts of production and class conflict as key constituents of contemporary societies.
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Instead people live in the "hyperreality" of simulations in which images, spectacles, and the play of signs replace the concepts of production and class conflict as key constituents of contemporary societies.
Jean Baudrillard Kellner, Douglas 2007
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Lucy and her home and the atmosphere within it seemed to have a kind of hyperreality, as if I had stepped into a photograph featured in Better Homes & Gardens, and I wondered how much of it was real and how much was just me.
Little Girl Blue Cray, David 2002
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In her reference to "hyperreality" in her conversation with Michele Slung, the author is echoing, however unconsciously,
Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999
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Instead people live in the "hyperreality" of simulations in which images, spectacles, and the play of signs replace the concepts of production and class conflict as key constituents of contemporary societies.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Maybe I'm just stupid, but I was totally incapable of figuring out what "hyperreality" is from a reading of this article.
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They live in a world of abstractions and images, a simulated world that consists of computerized models of reality - "hyperreality," as it has been called
University Diaries 2008
kenspeckle commented on the word hyperreality
In honor of Baudrillard.
March 8, 2007
whichbe commented on the word hyperreality
In semiotics and postmodern philosophy, the term hyperreality characterizes the inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from fantasy, especially in technologically advanced postmodern cultures. Hyperreality is a means to characterise the way consciousness defines what is actually "real" in a world where a multitude of media can radically shape and filter the original event or experience being depicted. (from Wikipedia)
May 17, 2008