THE OMNIPRESENT DISNEYLAND: SOME NOTES ON WILLIAM GIBSON`S NOVEL IDORU
THE OMNIPRESENT DISNEYLAND: SOME NOTES ON WILLIAM GIBSON`S NOVEL IDORU
Author(s): Martin CharvátSubject(s): Theory of Literature, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, American Literature
Published by: Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie
Keywords: digital media; Disneyland; hyperreality; Jean Baudrillard; simulacra; William Gibson;
Summary/Abstract: The aim of present paper is to expose a thesis about the relationship between contemporary society and digital media by Jean Baudrillard. Baudrillard stresses that our society is strongly connected to digital technologies which construct a hyperreality, a reality full of simulacra and simulated pseudo-events without any relation to “reality”. This thesis is in the paper exemplified upon a reading of cyberpunk literary novel written by William Gibson. I focus on novel Idoru where Gibson reveals the nature of digital media production in the sphere of entertainment industry and thus presenting to audience the phantasmagorical vision of the (virtual) world.
Journal: Megatrendy a médiá
- Issue Year: 6/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 372-385
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English