hyperreal

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If video games are hyperreal, then many television programs, movies, works of art and works of literature are as well.

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  • Good Morning America on hyperreal baby dolls and their "moms" —  Boing Boing
  • Gorgeous Lighting Tips For Gorgeous Screenshots, an SL fashion blog with an endless stream of sexy, luminously hyperreal photos. —  New World Notes
  • Those Thai back street stores are a nice example of the hyperreal world of Apple, fuelled by speculation and expectation about non-existent things. very first edition of this column way back in 2004, I put forward the idea that one of Apple's greatest assets was the swarm of rumour and speculation that surrounded it constantly. —  silicon.com :
  • Everywhere today one must recycle waste, and the dreams, the phantasms, the historical, fairylike, legendary imaginary of children and adults is a waste product, the first great toxic excrement of a hyperreal civilization —  Vox Nova
  • It's not merely a challenge for others, but it is for us all, because we all, together, have created and control the unreal, hyperreal social structures which surround us today. —  Vox Nova
 

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