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- catalog abstract ""Reading Simulacra analyzes the ways in which our culture has become fatally immersed in simulation. Television, the Internet, virtual reality, and other advancements in technology and information processing have brought about an order in which simulations and digital images permeate our experiences of the world so deeply that their distinctions from reality appear seamless. Through a careful study of some of the most important postmodern theorists, particularly Jean Baudrillard and Deleuze and Guattari, this book puts forth two different communication strategies - "seduction" and "rupture"--For a world where the difference between what is real and what is simulated has disappeared. In an attempt to discern meaning from this contemporary situation, M.W. Smith examines a range of contemporary texts that have, in the past, resisted traditional analysis. These include the O.J. Simpson trial, Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, Reese Williams's A Pair of Eyes, Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School and Don Quixote, Clarence Major's My Amputations, and Baudrillard's America - all of which represent the obscenity of hypersignified existence."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12285880.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Reading Simulacra analyzes the ways in which our culture has become fatally immersed in simulation. Television, the Internet, virtual reality, and other advancements in technology and information processing have brought about an order in which simulations and digital images permeate our experiences of the world so deeply that their distinctions from reality appear seamless. Through a careful study of some of the most important postmodern theorists, particularly Jean Baudrillard and Deleuze and Guattari, this book puts forth two different communication strategies - "seduction" and "rupture"--For a world where the difference between what is real and what is simulated has disappeared. In an attempt to discern meaning from this contemporary situation, M.W. Smith examines a range of contemporary texts that have, in the past, resisted traditional analysis. These include the O.J. Simpson trial, Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, Reese Williams's A Pair of Eyes, Kathy Acker's Blood and Guts in High School and Don Quixote, Clarence Major's My Amputations, and Baudrillard's America - all of which represent the obscenity of hypersignified existence."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-136) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Reading simulacra: toward a bifocal approach -- Fatal strategies -- Nietzsche's legacy: the postmodern will -- Seduction, radical semiurgy, and the logic of the code -- Technology and the (dis)appearing subject: schizophrenia or seduction? -- Dehistoricized subjectivity: Reese Williams and schizoid text -- Desire, seduction, and subjectivity in Kathy Acker's novels: Blood and guts in high school and Don Quixote -- Clarence Major's My amputations: African American identity and simulacra -- Baudrillard's America: the perfect postmodern object of simulation -- Media culture on the verge of drama: hyperreal O.J. and simulacra in Oliver Stone's Natural born killers.".
- catalog extent "x, 142 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0791450635 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0791450643 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "SUNY series in postmodern culture".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Albany : State University of New York Press,".
- catalog subject "306/.01 21".
- catalog subject "Baudrillard, Jean, 1929-2007.".
- catalog subject "HM449 .S553 2001".
- catalog subject "Postmodernism.".
- catalog subject "Reality.".
- catalog subject "Simulation methods Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "Subjectivity in literature.".
- catalog subject "Subjectivity.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Reading simulacra: toward a bifocal approach -- Fatal strategies -- Nietzsche's legacy: the postmodern will -- Seduction, radical semiurgy, and the logic of the code -- Technology and the (dis)appearing subject: schizophrenia or seduction? -- Dehistoricized subjectivity: Reese Williams and schizoid text -- Desire, seduction, and subjectivity in Kathy Acker's novels: Blood and guts in high school and Don Quixote -- Clarence Major's My amputations: African American identity and simulacra -- Baudrillard's America: the perfect postmodern object of simulation -- Media culture on the verge of drama: hyperreal O.J. and simulacra in Oliver Stone's Natural born killers.".
- catalog title "Reading simulacra : fatal theories for postmodernity / M.W. Smith.".
- catalog type "text".