Hyperreality

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The hyper-reality is the image of something that in reality does not exist, but his own simulacrum or the excessive, idealized, the ideas of an artist corresponding image of an actually existing object.

This way of thinking goes back to philosophers like Ludwig Feuerbach , Guy Debord or Marshall McLuhan and subsequently Umberto Eco , Jean Baudrillard or Giorgio Agamben .

The definition of hyperreality presupposes that there is a reality that can be reduced to simple, tangible terms and that any communication can transform this reality into a hyperreality through the falsified transmission of information. This very narrow definition of reality severely restricts the meaningfulness of theses that use the term hyperreality.

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