Thesis outline

Modern escapism
Commodification relaxation
Escape into hyperreality
Desert of the real
hypernormalisation
Post Truth
Perception management (american program)

"If once we were able to view the Borges fable in which the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up covering the territory exactly [...] this fable has now come full circle for us, and possesses nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacrum [...] It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts that are no longer those of the Empire, but ours. The desert of the real itself." (Baudrillard, Simulacra and simulation)

"Which is about however the past 40 years, politicians, financiers and technological utopians, rather than face up to the real complexities of the world, retreated. Instead they constructed a simpler version of the world, in order to hang onto power" (Hypernormalisation, Documentary, BBC)

Hoofdvraag:

Technology of the self in a society of control
Escapism in modern western society
Post truth / hyperreality / cyberspace / hypernormalisation / desert of the real

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