Browsing by Subject "Jean Baudrillard"
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Ornament for Serious Purpose: Mina Loy and Gaudy Consumer Culture
(2011-08-25)Mina Loy’s work explores the gaudiness of consumer culture in its spectacle, extravagance and underlying falsity. “Giovanni Franchi,” “Three Moments in Paris” and “Virgins Plus Curtains Minus Dots” question the perceptive ... -
Symbols and the Soul: Hyperreality, Dissensus, and Sacred Humanism in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition
(2017-09-06)In his 2003 novel, Pattern Recognition, William Gibson explores the potential for humanizing change in the post-9/11, globalized world. This thesis will first argue that Pattern Recognition depicts a dehumanizing version ...