simulacral

A simulacral creation of an imagined-science fiction-artifact?

Ubuntu Linux and Rediscovering My Technologized Past 2010

There can be but one sordid bordello of this magnitude, and Koeneke has erected it squarely at the fissure where the simulacral Middle America of Pop Warner and bubble top vans collides with a paracolonial hallucination of Eastern inscrutability inhabited by five-dollar houris and hack oud players.

Books by Portland Authors: Rodney Koeneke - Reading Local: Portland 2009

The imaginary river that fecundates the flood-plain in the brain-pan belongs to the simulacral Troy, parvam Troiam, that Andromache builds in the Aeneid, in captivity, after her city was destroyed.

An Excess of Reality : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

The creature's simulacral presence, human but not a person, living but unborn, persists through the many retellings of Frankenstein and spills over into the story's science-fiction progeny.

Patriarchal Fantasy and the Fecal Child in Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ and its Adaptations 2003

Pyre, 2010, is an agglomeration of B-movie gimmicks: As the lights dim, a dramatic chord is struck by a mechanized cello and violin, activating a phalanx of industrial fans that raise a curtain of theatrically lit fabric into a simulacral fire.

artforum.com 2010

They won't critique institutions, generate participative experiences, hold a mirror up to our (we're told, but I've yet to find anyone who actually believes this) media-bombarded, meta-simulacral society or even (for the love of God!) provide their own commentary on the problematics of making art in the first place.

Museum Blogs 2010