Simulacrum America

The USA and the Popular Media

By: Elisabeth Kraus (Editor), Carolin Auer (Editor)

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Hardcover | 26 November 1999

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This collection of original essays is a response to the paradigm shift that has taken place in cultural studies in the wake of postmodernism and poststructuralism. Such concepts as 'truth' or 'reality' have been increasingly called into question, since the realization that our experience of 'the real' is always mediated through an "empire of signs," as Roland Barthes put it. After a predominantly optimistic evaluation of the effects of the media in the 1960s (by Marshall McLuhan, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and others), a growing awareness of the total manipulation of society by mass-media imagery has emerged. The very concept of 'representation' has become problematic, witness the influential essay "The Precession of Simulacra" by the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard, in which he defines simulation as "the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal"- the current boom in 'reality TV' comes to mind. In the seventeen years since the publication of Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, ever more sophisticated technologies based on the computer as the simulacrum machine par excellence have offered us powerful new means of manipulating data - and consequently, means of manipulating, editing, and inventing 'reality.' The aim of this study is to unmask false 'representations', showing history, personal and cultural identity (especially gender and racial identities), the simulacrum of speed -- and American 'reality' itself -- to be constructs.

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Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Simulacra in Literature: History and Human Identity	p. 21
Simulacrum as Sub-Text: Fiction Writing in the Face of Media Representations of American History	p. 23
Simulacrum vs. Death: An American Dilemma in Don DeLillo's White Noise	p. 37
Experiments on Living Matter or How to Save the Narrative from Extinction - The Unfinished Story of Jean Baudrillard's and Don DeLillo's Cultural Pathology	p. 49
Pop Goes the Novel: Avant-Pop Literature and the Tradition of the New	p. 64
(The) Playing Author: Narrativity and Identity in Literature and Interactive Media	p. 75
Simulacra in Science Fiction: Cyberspace, Cyborgs, and Cybernetic Discourse	p. 85
Return from the Implants: Cyberpunk's Schizophrenic Futures	p. 87
Terminal Notions of What We May Become: Synthflesh, Cyberreality, and the Post-Human Body	p. 95
"Just Affix My Reality": Pat Cadigan's Constructions of Subjectivity	p. 107
Warp 9 to Hyperreality: Information Velocity and the End of the Space Age	p. 122
Interrogation from Hyperspace: Visions of Culture in Neuromancer and "War Without End"	p. 136
The Commodification of Difference and the Simulation of Co-identity	p. 147
Pop as a Difference Engine: Music, Markets, and Marginality	p. 149
Subverting the Tonto Stereotype in Popular Fiction, Or, Why Indians say "Ugh!"	p. 161
"A Transcript from Real Life": The Simulated Reality of the Social Reportage	p. 169
Queering Ethnicity, Queering Sexuality: A Paradigmatic Shift in the Politics of Cinematic Representation in Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman (1996)	p. 181
About Something Queer: Simulated Sexualities in Bound and Showgirls	p. 189
Issues of Ideology: The Politics and Cultural Politics of Film	p. 203
Hollywood and the Decline of European Empire	p. 205
The Nation and the Void: Simulacrum America in an American Documentary Film	p. 217
Works Cited	p. 229
Contributors	p. 245
Index	p. 249
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