What is "hyperreality"?

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What is "hyperreality" actually? (please give your own idea of what it is and don't just copy and paste what the net says, or don't put just a link, i want to know your thoughts).
Has anyone ever experianced "hyperreality"?

Answer 1

This article is about the concept of hyperreality as it applies to contemporary continental philosophy. For hyperreality in art, see Hyperrealism (painting).
In semiotics and postmodern philosophy, hyperrealism (not to be confused with surrealism) is a term to describe a symptom of an evolved, postmodern culture. Hyperreality is a way of characterising the way the consciousness interacts with "reality". Specifically, when a consciousness loses its ability to distinguish reality from fantasy, and begins to engage with the latter without understanding what it is doing, it has shifted into the world of the hyperreal. The nature of the hyperreal world is characterised by "enhancement" of reality. Some famous theorists of hyperreality include Jean Baudrillard, Albert Borgmann, Daniel Boorstin, and Umberto Eco.

Most aspects of hyperreality can be thought of as "reality by proxy." For example, a viewer watching pornography begins to live in the non-existant world of the pornography, and even though the pornography is not an accurate depiction of sex, for the viewer, the reality of "sex" becomes something non-existant. Some examples are simpler: the McDonald's "M" arches create a world with the promise of endless amounts of identical food, when in "reality" (according to critics) the "M" represents nothing and the food produced is not identical or infinite, but low-quality ingredients which have branded such that it is difficult to even identify them.

Baudrillard in particular suggests that the world we live in has been replaced by a copy world, where we seek simulated stimuli and nothing more. Baudrillard borrows, from Jorge Luis Borges, the example of a society whose cartographers create a map so detailed that it covers the very things it was designed to represent. When the empire declines, the map fades into the landscape and there is neither the representation nor the real remaining – just the hyperreal.

Baudrillard's idea of hyperreality was heavily influenced by phenomenology, semiotics, and Marshall McLuhan.



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Hyperreality is a way of characterising the way the consciousness interacts with "reality". Specifically, when a consciousness loses its ability to distinguish reality from fantasy, and begins to engage with the latter without understanding what it is doing, it has shifted into the world of the hyperreal. The nature of the hyperreal world is characterised by "enhancement" of reality.

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Hyperreality is a way of characterising the way the consciousness interacts with "reality". Specifically, when a consciousness loses its ability to distinguish reality from fantasy, and begins to engage with the latter without understanding what it is doing, it has shifted into the world of the hyperreal.

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Examples Of Hyperreality

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What is "hyperreality"?
What is "hyperreality" actually? (please give your own idea of what it is and don't just copy and paste what the net says, or don't put just a link, i want to know your thoughts).
Has anyone ever experianced "hyperreality"?

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life is like a rollercoaster, juz ride it and scream!

that's my idea of hyper

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an acid trip. or shrooms