Hyperreality by Mulder, Frank

Hyperreality (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781725277915)

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Format: Hardcover
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Hyperreality by Mulder, Frank

Hyperreality

$35.00
Hyperreality by Mulder, Frank

Hyperreality

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
Description
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What is the similarity between battery chicken, iris scans, Facebook friends, and porn videos? They are all features of a technical system built to satisfy our desires and to suppress our fears. It is a so-called hyperreality, an improved version of natural reality, promising wealth, security, and belonging. However, behind the shiny appearance we can detect a few dangerous mechanisms. Increasingly our tools are controlling us, instead of the other way around, and we are steadily rebuilding the world into a machine with laws we are unable to change. What are the risks of this machine? How can we discern the illusions of hyperreality? With insights derived from Rene Girard and Jacques Ellul, among others, this book calls for a joyful spiritual life, in the midst of stubborn reality.

Author: Frank Mulder
ISBN-10: 1725277913
ISBN-13: 9781725277915
Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2021
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.38d
By Frank Mulder
By Frank Mulder
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Frank Mulder is a freelance journalist in the Netherlands writing for different magazines and newspapers. With his wife and four children he lives in a community with refugees in a poor neighborhood. He likes technological products like his bicycle, but he has no smartphone.

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