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Baudrillard’s culture of simulation destroys our sense of paramount reality. It has created, as Chris Rojek puts it, a "huge refugee camp in which viewers, dissociated from place and community, are caught up in global indexing and dragging processes which no one controls." What is thus also, perversely, inscribed within the cultural landscape is a nostalgia for authenticity, for the dissimulated spaces and places which, though no longer there, stimulate their semiotic reconstructions and reproductions. And yet "[t]he possibility of lying is the prioprium of semiosis," as Umberto Eco has once remarked. Truth and falsity are inherent in the sign and in representation generally, subverting the tertium non datur principle. This book is an attempt to unmask representation, to see through the signs of the real, and through the real itself, at the realm of simulation. Those signs are not only signs of what they signify, but also signs of culture, of the cultural real which the articles included in the volume try to penetrate from various theoretical and philosophical perspectives.
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The Editor: Wojciech H. Kalaga is Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Silesia. His recent publications include Nebulae of Discourse: Interpretation, Textuality, and the Subject (Lang, 1997), and papers on literary and cultural theory.
Tadeusz Rachwał is Associate Professor at the same university. He has published extensively on labour and leisure in the 19th century and on cultural theory. Recently, they edited several volumes of papers, including – Memory – Remembering – Forgetting (Lang, 1999).
Tadeusz Rachwał is Associate Professor at the same university. He has published extensively on labour and leisure in the 19th century and on cultural theory. Recently, they edited several volumes of papers, including – Memory – Remembering – Forgetting (Lang, 1999).
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- PublisherPeter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 3631365594
- ISBN 13 9783631365595
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages244
- EditorKalaga Wojciech, Rachwal Tadeusz
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