CMN2160 Chapter Notes -Information Society, Postmodern Culture, Metanarrative
22 Apr 2014
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America that has now vanished from human experience: hyperreality is the outcome of simulated imagery what baudrillard calls simulacra, the omnipresence of mediated advertising invades everything, as public space (the street, monument, market, scene) disappears . Pseudo-events", rife in news media and not dissimilar to baudrillard"s media- simulated non-events": boorstin: the omnipresence of images, which are so easy to produce and distribute via multimedia channels in the late twentieth century, are indicative of a. Covers" that like parody acknowledge an original version: critique, is originality really impossible today, by referring to the disappearance of our sense of history, he also appears conveniently to neglect a long history of pastiche-like intertextuality. Western societies have been reduced: a new class" of engineers, technicians and other planning occupations has been created, a new definition of rationality in the sense of efficiency and optimization. Using resources with the least cost and effort has introduced.
