Hyperreality

A possible assumption for exploring the idea of 'real' is that it is no longer an object of representation. Documenting the real world is manipulative in a sense where the artist implicitly intends to assert something about the truthful scene, which the audience are expected to form a sense of that aspect or an artist’s intention about that subject. Therefore it questions the framing of reality. Today reality itself is hyperrealistic as the real and the imaginary are indistinguishable for being…

Hasan Saleem Weekly Critical Reading Review #4 The readings over the past two weeks and the film La Haine focused on the issue of social and spatial discrimination in cities. The major theme present in the movie and essays is the socioeconomic conditions of the marginalized, African Americans in United States and the poor French working class and immigrants. The essays also focused on the power of the states and how those in power marginalize others. The film La Haine centers on the fact that…

Pretty Little Liars is a television show based on a popular book series about group of five friends named Alison, Hanna, Aria, Emily, and Spencer. The girls began to separate after the leader of the group, Alison, went missing one summer.. They began to get threatening messages from an anonymous source a year after her disappearance. The person sending the messages went by the alias “A”. “A” threatened to expose their secrets and blackmailed them to get what she wanted. Some of the secrets were…

Drawing inspiration/influence is a particularly tricky situation, because as artists we feel this overarching desire—nay, need—to leave a permanent and unique stain on the world. If that stain resembles too closely one that came before it, then where is the ingenuity in that? This being the case, it is impossible to make anything of merit without being at least subconsciously influenced. Only upon realizing this fact and embracing it is an artist able to fully and successfully utilize the arts…

“Sizzling chemistry, jealousy, heartbreak and the unmistakeable early signs of love – and that is just in the first episode. The Bachelor Australia is back and it is bigger than ever.”(Network Ten, 2014)- more like sizzling script, hyped emotions, emphasised heartbreak and forced signs of lust for money. The Bachelor is a romance based reality television program intended on giving single people the chance to find love- or more commonly, some mild celebrity. Reality television programs based on…

while the water we can assume she was in, just disperses around her. Then she is seen in a yellow sundress holding onto a bat which she uses to engage in the vandalization of cars, and the camera which was recording her. This is a great example of hyperreality. The simulation of reality was temporarily destroyed when Beyonce smashed the camera which was recording…

Chapter 1 Introduction Jonathan Earl Franzen, an American writer, is one of the most acclaimed novelist and essayist of today’s era. Born in Western Springs, Illinois on August 17, 1959 this prolific writer has contributed greatly in the industry of literature by producing number of creative pieces of work throughout his writing career. Franzen was brought up in Webster Groves, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. In 1981 he graduated from Swarthmore College with a degree in German. His…