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- Lovén, Svante, 1959-
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Even better than the real thing : Counterfeit realities and twentieth century dystopian fiction.
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Ingår i: Human IT. - Borås. - 1402-1501 .- 1402-151X. ; 5:2-3, s. 233-289
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In recent years, the theme of artificial and/or mediated reality has been recurrent in popular cinema (The Matrix, The Truman Show, The Cell, etc.). This trend reflects a growing awareness of how information technologies obfuscate traditional boundaries of what is real and what is not. The article draws a cultural background to these films, and, by extension, to our so-called age of information by examining a number of older fictional works in which technologies of representation and simulation are explored in more or less dystopian terms. In a trajectory including otherwise unrelated works, such as J. K. Huysmans’ Against Nature and William Gibson’s Neuromancer, we find a number of familiar themes and images presented with a striking degree of continuity: the neglect of the body, the deterioration of social and familial bonds, the loss of history and literary culture, the retreat from reality into a world of engineered hallucinations.
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