Margaret J. King’s article “Themeatics: The art of hyperreality” (2025) is an examination of how hyperreality can be a positive expression of human creativity and communication, and it uses Disneyland as its principal example. Essentially, King argues that the schemes originally devised by Walt Disney Imagineers to entertain guests and keep them immersed in the …
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This week I found the article “From Reality to the Hyperreality of Simulation” by Paulo Barroso (2022). It explores how hyperreality relates to the concepts of virtual reality and simulation, detailing the distinctions between the concepts and how they combine with modern communications technology to reshape how we live our lives and perceive reality. Barroso …
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The SCP Foundation is an ongoing collaborative work of fiction which began in 2008. It’s a wiki with presents itself as the archive of a secretive extra-governmental organization which has charged itself with protecting the world from anomalies – objects, beings, and even concepts which defy the laws of physics and conventional understanding, from a …
This week I came across the article “On the Apocalypse that No One Noticed” (Krevel, 2018), an introduction to an issue of the journal ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries. This issue featured articles concerning speculative fiction and science fiction in particular, and this introduction examines the specific subgenre of cyberpunk and its interaction …
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