simulacrum

The simulacrum of reality being overtaken by television had reached its logical denouement.

"Rodrigo Duterte ran and was electedpresident' by voters who were not informed of the fact that he was not qualified to run and thereafter, Duterte usurped the presidency without a simulacrum of constitutional authority in flagrant violation of Article 177 of the Revised Penal Code," the petition read.

Wolfi's eyes, not in themselves much like hers, in their rather remarkable pale brown with yellowish flecks, somehow managed to maintain a simulacrum of her expression.

They analyze knowledge, truth, and falsehood, and apply French sociologist, philosopher Jean Baudrillard to the task at hand: his is simulacrum creates and implements its own referential system.

In the contemporary time, with the lack of labour protection laws and the unenforced nature of the minimum wage we can see a simulacrum to what Marx and Engels basically said.

This transfers the state's majority power (majoritarian in power) to the consumer of information (minoritatian in power), who, in turn, has the possibility to become-majoritarian, but only in a simulacrum paradigm.

Filipino filmmaker Khavn unveiled his 13-hour film, Simulacrum Tremendum, at the 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands last Saturday (Jan.

The woman we've been watching in the white room isn't the woman, but her simulacrum. She was created, the man explains, to be a digital concierge for the "real" woman's high-tech home --making her food, scheduling her appointments, anticipating her every desire.

Their young adman, who works with equal dedication on a soft drink advert, the "No" campaign, and a soap opera, introduces all three projects with the same words: "Hoy Chile piensa en su futuro." The filmmakers suggest that the democratic transition is a simulacrum devoid of referent and echo those political scientists who call it "empty" or "pseudo." The same dialogue about the democratic transition in other Latin countries takes place between the adaptations oi Arrancame la vida and La fiesta del chivo and their literary sources.

Enhanced with the inclusion of an informative Foreword; an Introduction (Charting a Nomadic Course: Michael heller's Dispersions of Tradition), an Afterword (The Philosophical Poet in the Age of the Simulacrum); an interview with Michael Heller conducted by Curley and Kimmelman; an eight page Bibliography; an eight page Index; and a list of contributors, "The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller" is an impressive and seminal body of original scholarship and highly recommended for academic library Literary Studies in general, and Michael Heller supplemental studies lists in particular.