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The Catch of the Hyperreal: Yossarian and the Ideological Vicissitudes of Hyperreality

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Yazdizadeh A.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2018

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issue 8

386-410

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Hyperreality is a key term in Jean Baudrillard’s cultural theory, designating a phase in the development of image where it “masks the absence of a profound reality.” The ambiance of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961) closely corresponds to Baudrillard’s notion of the hyperreal as images persist to precede reality in the fictional world of the novel. Since for Baudrillard each order of simulacra produces a certain mode of ideological discourse that impacts the perception of reality, it is plausible that the characters of this fictional context should be ideologically impacted by the hyperreal discourse. From this vantage point it is possible to have a new critical assessment of Yossarian’s (protagonist) antiheroic stance and study the role of the “business of illusion,” whose ideological edifice is based on the discourse of the hyperreal, on his antiheroic stance and actions. By drawing on Baudrillard’s cultural theory this paper aims to read Heller’s novel as a postmodern allegory of rebellion against the hyperreality of the twentieth-century American life and trace its relevance to modern-day U.S.

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Authenticity, Reception and Media Reality

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Kosmály P.

Creative and Knowledge Society

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2012

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vol. 2

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issue 1

118-128

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This article deals with the reception of media reality, which is meant to be an alternative mode of consciousness, and with the phenomenon of authenticity and its understanding within media reality. It is also pointed out the distortion in the reception of media reality. As an unifying concept for media education and for the treatment of reception defects it is mentioned media anthropology - an interdisciplinary, respectively trans-disciplinary science, which can provide more consistent re-analyzing of the relationship between man and media as tools for improving his skills. From the methodological point of view the method of epistemological anarchism, Paul Feyerabend's "anything goes" is explained as an epistemological translation tool for developing reviewing competences and reception skills as a whole (organic reception). We propose to deal the distortion of media reception in different therapeutic ways: from sensory deprivation, through media substitution, organic reception, to transcendence of the observer and imitation of media - meta-creation. In the sense of organic, systemic reception we in fact propose to "copy" the communication strategy of media system(s) in order to extend or set appropriate "epistemic" competences. In the related illustration of this mechanism, the theory of A. Weinstock is applied for setting a research indifference point in the middle of a fictive reception continuum of polarities sympathy and antipathy with media. This paper represents a part of activities, which summarize author's dissertation thesis Reception instruction in the media reality, where there are presented not only analyses and attempted typology of reception instructions, but also case studies with specific proposals for teaching and researching within areas of media ethics and media education.

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Смерть в симулятивном пространстве гиперреальности современной русской драмы (на примере пьес Олега Богаева)

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Maliutina N.

Slavica Wratislaviensia

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2018

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vol. 166

427-439

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Death in the simulative space of the hyperrealityof modern Russian drama(on the example of Oleg Bogayev’s plays) The image of the death’s simulacrum is a product of character’s speech in many comedy plays by the Russian playwright from Ekaterinburg — Oleg Bogayev, among them: Russian folk post, Dead Ears. The newest history of a toilet paper and others. In the poetics of O. Bogaev’s texts, the space of hyperreality is formed and the images of life and death function as simulacra and reminiscence of the mental stereotypes of the post-Soviet era. Analysis of the use of simulacra of death in a number of Bogayev plays allows us to find authorial irony over the processes of appearance of these simulacra in the speech, and over the processes of their involvement in the universal play of senses. The abyssal situation of the repetition of the transition from life to death, repeatedly duplicated, cause action in the comedies, the gap between the word and its meaning. Language becomes, in fact, a means of simulating discourse, and, therefore, causes the illusion of communication. The context of death (dying) acquires a literary, cultural and psychological contexts of the last collective experience. That becomes a cause of the loss of the direct sense of the term, the word and its meaning lies in the relationship of semantic transgression.

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Смерть у симулятивному просторі гіперреальності сучасної російської драми(на прикладi п’єc Олега Богаєва) Образ-симулякр смерті є породженням мовлення персонажів багатьох комедій сучасного російського драматурга з Єкатеринбургу Олега Богаєва. Серед них: Російська народна пошта, Мертві вуха. Новітня історія туалетного паперу та інші. В поетиці текстів Богаєва формується простір гіперреальності, образи „життя і смерті” функціонують як симулякри, що нагадують ментальні стереотипи пострадянської доби. Аналіз того, як використовуються симулякри смерті в ряді п’єс Богаєва, дозволяє виявити авторську іронію щодо процесів появи в мовленні цих симулякрів, щодо процесів їх втягування до універсальної гри смислами. Абсурдна ситуація повторення переходу від життя до смерті, багаторазово тиражована, організує дію в комедіях, тим самим виявляється дистанція між словом та його значенням. Мова стає, по суті, засобом симуляції дискурса, отже, викликає ілюзію комунікації. Побутовий контекст смерті (вмирання) набуває літературні, культурно-психологічні контексти минулого колективного досвіду. У зв’язку з цим втрачається пряме значення цього поняття, слово та його значення знаходяться у відношеннях семантичної трансгресії.

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Rewolucje i reakcje społeczne Pierre’a Bourdieu i Jeana Baudrillarda

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Garncarek T., Łódzki U.

Internetowy Magazyn Filozoficzny Hybris

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2016

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vol. 34 (3)

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Jean Baudrillard and Pierre Bourdieu are two well known French social philosophers that have at least couple of things in common. They were born in the same social conditions, they grew up as rebels, and they participated in Revolution of 1968. They also participated in the very same formal problems of the research work. The problem is, what happens when one introduces same difficulties in one’s ideas as those, that he was searching to neutralize. Bourdieu criticizes the system of education, art, culture in general, because it contributes to reproduction and conservation of social hierarchy. However, he's doing it using quite similar kind of high developed concepts, that he had criticized before. Baudrillard also detests modern social habits. Most of all, so called hyperreality, that manifests itself as a lack of real connection between things and concepts or ideas related to them. Nonetheless Baudrillard seems to adore hyperreality also, as a dimension of game, seduction. Bourdieu, as well as Baudrillard, appears as an adept of pataphysics — according to the definition given to this notion by Baudrillard, based on novels of Alfred Jarry.

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Selfhood and simulacra: on the phenomenon of Snapchat dysmorphia

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Marek J.

Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)

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2023

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vol. 71

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issue Special_issue_1

67-88

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Snapchat dysmorphia is a body dysmorphic disorder where a user of filtered selfies becomes dissatisfied with his or her “natural” appearance and seeks surgical procedures in order to look like in the filtered selfies. This study presents the current discussions of Snapchat dysmorphia and proposes to further analyse the phenomenon against the backdrop of the concepts of hyperreality and simulacra. The critique of Snapchat dysmorphia is fuelled by the implicit dualism of “natural” vs. “artificial”, “real” vs. “fake” and takes place in the context of an unacknowledged effort to defend the inviolability and sanctity of human nature. In order to overcome the binarity and normativeness of understanding Snapchat dysmorphia as an “unnatural” phenomenon, this study proposes to view it as an instance of “second nature”. It is a habitualised practice, an attempt to appropriate, to manifest the already accustomed image of the self on the corporeal level. In this analysis, the phenomenon of Snapchat dysmorphia becomes a case study of the limits of our views of the relationship between selfhood and corporeality.

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Dyskurs (post)konwencjonalnej tożsamości wobec merkantylistycznej natury globalizującego się świata

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Jastrząb P.

Kultura-Społeczeństwo-Edukacja

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2014

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vol. 6

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issue 2

193-205

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In this article I described the idea of globalization, but I abandoned a strictly scientific analysis and treated the subject more contemplatively. I described not only the process, but also the values (connected with the culture of instant gratification, globalization and the cultural homogenization) and the orientation connected with it (consumerism, commoditization of human life) which shape the surrounding reality as well as ourselves. The question of identity, which is constantly shaping, is significant in this context. It is, just as globalization, fluid, unspecified and ambivalent. I endeavour to prove the hypotheses by adducing sociological, cultural and philosophical classic writers. The very last ones – fairly unexpectedly – become crucial to me and they let me analyse the human nature in postmodern reality holistically.

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Współczesna rola techniki w procesach wykluczenia i integracji społecznej

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Markowski W.

Humanistyka i Przyrodoznawstwo

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2017

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issue 23

223-242

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technika, technologia, integracja społeczna, wykluczenie społeczne, globalizacja, konsumpcjonizm, społeczeństwo postindustrialne, prekariat, dzień długu ekologicznego, globalne południe, globalna północ, hiperrzeczywistość, uwolniony kapitał

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Technika spełnia istotną rolę w procesie przeciwdziałania wykluczeniu społecznemu, jak również prowadzi do niego. Ukazanie tych dwóch aspektów jest przedmiotem niniejszego artykułu, choć nie można tu powiedzieć o wyczerpaniu wieloaspektowości zagadnienia. To zreferowanie jego istotnych elementów z punktu widzenia autora oraz próba ukazania związanych z nimi problemów.

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