According to Wiley, hyperreality refers to the paradoxical concept of a reality that is experienced as excessively real – it describes phenomena that are deemed to be more real than the real itself. As Wikipedia explains, hyperreality is used in semiotics and postmodern philosophy to describe a hypothetical inability of consciousness to distinguish reality from […]
Hyperreality, or excessively real reality
mayo 3rd, 2012 · Comments Off on Hyperreality, or excessively real reality
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Gerry Coutler: Baudrillard’s Marx
febrero 28th, 2012 · Comments Off on Gerry Coutler: Baudrillard’s Marx
Jean Baudrillard was a French philosopher and sociologist, a cultural critic and theorist of postmodernity, who, unfortunetly, died in 2007. He left a huge work composed by many books, articles and essays, and he is common known, among other things, for analyzing critically Marx‘s ideas. Marx believed that in economics and its dialectical procedure he […]
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The Coca-Cola Company speaks through the web
diciembre 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on The Coca-Cola Company speaks through the web
The Coca-Cola Company is a worldwide beverage business using different social networks and web communication tools to spread as a company and to keep in touch with its consumers. According to John Costello, […] this is the age of the internet. Millions of people use the internet every day. As Susan Payton said in an […]
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Maxine Hong Kingston, a woman who never tires
diciembre 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Maxine Hong Kingston, a woman who never tires
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes – The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese-American writer, best known for being the author of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, a memoir discussing concepts of gender, ethnicity and identity. […]
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