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Hyperreality

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Baudrillardian concept where artificial experiences dominate to the point that claims to reality must be phrased in artificial terms

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"literally everyone everywhere now wears headphones, airpods, whatever, drowning their psyches, all of the time. no one talks to strangers, listens to the sounds of the environment or endures the consequences of heavy machinery or other people existing — just turn the volume up. you can literally con"
headphones are the ultimate symbol of hyperreality · u/clown_sugars · ↑192 · 2023-03-02
"This is a regime of total equivalency, where cultural products need no longer even pretend to be real in a naïve sense, because the experiences of consumers' lives are so predominantly artificial that even claims to reality are expected to be phrased in artificial, 'hyperreal' terms."
"literally everyone everywhere now wears headphones, airpods, whatever, drowning their psyches, all of the time. no one talks to strangers, listens to the sounds of the environment"
headphones are the ultimate symbol of hyperreality · u/clown_sugars · ↑192 · 2023-03-02
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