From Wikipedia: hyperreality
* a sports drink of a flavour that doesn’t exist (”wild ice zest berry”)
* a plastic Christmas tree that looks better than a real Christmas tree ever could
* a magazine photo of a model that has been touched up with a computer
* a well manicured garden (nature as hyperreal)
* the cinema
* Disney World and Las Vegas
* pornography (”sexier than sex itself”)
* MMORPGs, where simulated life is perceived as more engrossing than “real life”
wilhelm said,
July 28, 2005 @ 9:47am
(in an Eastern European accent) hmmm… veddy intellesting. hyperreality — see also: optimism.