Hyperreality is a way of characterizing what our consciousness defines as " real " in a world where a multitude of media can radically shape and filter an original event or experience.

* Hyperreality, a term used in semiotics and postmodern philosophy

* Hyperreality A similar concept in semiotics

* Umberto Eco, 1986: Travels in Hyperreality, New York: Harcourt.

In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.

A dominant motive is the poet's longing for his homeland and its boyhood associations: `` Not men-folk, but the fields where I would stray, The stones where as a child I used to play ''.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

Properly used, the present book is an excellent instrument of enlightenment.

This prospect did not please Mrs. King any more than did the possibility that her daughter might marry a Bohemian, but she used it to suggest to Thompson that, `` It is not in her nature to love you ''.

On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.

The trouble with this machinery is that it is not used and the reason that it is not used is the absence of a conscious sense of community among the free nations.

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

When different colors are used, she is just as likely to color trees purple, hair green, etc..

Berlin is merely being used by Moscow as a stalking horse.

The collection of information is meaningless unless it is understood and used for a definite purpose.

This is used as a reference for comparing the ohmic heating and the electrical energy obtained from the measured current through the element and the measured voltage across the element.

Today he is appreciated largely for his contributions to logic, mathematics, philosophy, scientific methodology, and semiotics, and for his founding of pragmatism.

He saw logic as the formal branch of semiotics, of which he is a founder.

Derrida will prefer to follow the more " fruitful paths ( formalization )" of a general semiotics without falling in what he considered " a hierarchizing teleology " privileging linguistics, and speak of ' mark ' rather than of language, not as something restricted to mankind, but as prelinguistic, as the pure possibility of language, working every where there is a relation to something else.

More broadly the term is used in a wide number of contexts for an image, picture, or representation ; it is a sign or likeness that stands for an object by signifying or representing it either concretely or by analogy, as in semiotics ; by extension, icon is also used, particularly in modern culture, in the general sense of symbol — i. e. a name, face, picture, edifice or even a person readily recognized as having some well-known significance or embodying certain qualities: one thing, an image or depiction, that represents something else of greater significance through literal or figurative meaning, usually associated with religious, cultural, political, or economic standing.

She is credited with the pluralization of the term " semiotics.

Structuralism is closely related to semiotics.

The way a sign signifies is called semiosis which is a topic of semiotics and philosophy of language.

Syntactics is the branch of semiotics that deals with the formal properties of signs and symbols.

To explain the relationship between semiotics and communication studies, communication is defined as the process of transferring data from a source to a receiver.

This implies that there is a necessary overlap between semiotics and communication.

Perhaps more difficult is the distinction between semiotics and the philosophy of language.

Philosophy of language pays more attention to natural languages or to languages in general, while semiotics is deeply concerned about non-linguistic signification.

Philosophy of language also bears a stronger connection to linguistics, while semiotics is closer to some of the humanities ( including literary theory ) and to cultural anthropology.

* Cognitive semiotics is the study of meaning-making by employing and integrating methods and theories developed in the cognitive sciences.

* Organisational semiotics is the study of semiotic processes in organizations.

Semiotic literary criticism, also called literary semiotics, is the approach to literary criticism informed by the theory of signs or semiotics.

Derrida will prefer to follow the more " fruitful paths ( formalization )" of a general semiotics without falling in what he considered " a hierarchizing teleology " privileging linguistics, and speak of ' mark ' rather than of language, not as something restricted to mankind, but as prelinguistic, as the pure possibility of language, working every where there is a relation to something else.

Cultural Studies is relatively undeveloped in France, where there is a stronger tradition of semiotics, as in the writings of Roland Barthes.

In functional-cognitive linguistics, as well as in semiotics, iconicity is the conceived similarity or analogy between the form of a sign ( linguistic or otherwise ) and its meaning, as opposed to arbitrariness.

Due to the semiotics, it is not generally applied personally to females, a personal direct object referred to as such is invariably male.

Another view, as important to the philosophy of art as " beauty ," is that of the " sublime ," elaborated upon in the twentieth century by the postmodern philosopher Jean-François Lyotard.

Cyberpunk is a postmodern science fiction genre noted for its focus on " high tech and low life.

Among Western historians, it conflicts with the postmodern impulse which is skeptical of great narratives.

* An example of critical postmodern work is Rolling, Jr., J. H. ( 2008 ).

In " Deconstructing History ", Alun Munslow examines history in what he argues is a postmodern age.

His poetry is not as highly critically esteemed as his fiction, although some critics place him as the first modernist poet in the United States ; others would assert that his work more strongly suggest what today would be a postmodern view.

This story also is a direct illustration of one of the tenets of postmodern theory — that the sign is not the thing it signifies, nor can one claim to fully or properly describe a thing or an idea with a word or other symbol.

Minimalism is variously construed either as a precursor to postmodernism, or as a postmodern movement itself.

He argues that minimalism is not a " dead end " of modernism, but a " paradigm shift toward postmodern practices that continue to be elaborated today.

Another trend in art which has been associated with the term postmodern is the use of a number of different media together.

While the theory of combining multiple arts into one art is quite old, and has been revived periodically, the postmodern manifestation is often in combination with performance art, where the dramatic subtext is removed, and what is left is the specific statements of the artist in question or the conceptual statement of their action.

Its destruction is considered by some to be the beginning of postmodern architecture.

Theorists, notably Rushworth Kidder, claimed that mediation is the foundation of a ' postmodern ') ethics — and that it sidesteps traditional ethical issues with pre-defined limits of morality.

In the postmodern understanding, interpretation is everything ; reality only comes into being through our interpretations of what the world means to us individually.

* American Heritage Dictionary: " Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by reintroducing traditional or classical elements of style or by carrying modernist styles or practices to extremes: ' It roadhouse is so architecturally interesting ... with its postmodern wooden booths and sculptural clock.

In ' Postmodernist Fiction ' ( 1987 ), Brian McHale details the shift from modernism to postmodernism, arguing that the former is characterized by an epistemological dominant, and that postmodern works have developed out of modernism and are primarily concerned with questions of ontology.

Postmodern music is either music of the postmodern era, or music that follows aesthetic and philosophical trends of postmodernism.

Because of this, Postmodern music is mostly defined in opposition to modernist music, and a work can either be modernist, or postmodern, but not both.

Postmodern Classical music as well is not a musical style, but rather refers to music of the postmodern era.

The postmodern era is positioned to synthesize at a higher level — the level of experience, where the being of things and the activity of the finite knower compenetrate one another and provide the materials whence can be derived knowledge of nature and knowledge of culture in their full symbiosis — the achievements of the ancients and the moderns in a way that gives full credit to the preoccupations of both.