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hyperreality
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hyperreality [ˌhaɪpərɪˈælɪtɪ]
n pl -ties
(Sociology) (Philosophy) an image or simulation, or an aggregate of images and simulations, that either distorts the reality it purports to depict or does not in fact depict anything with a real existence at all, but which nonetheless comes to constitute reality


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With no trace of human presence, shallow depth of field, out-of-scale vegetation, and brush-painted detail, the color-saturated prints lent a sense of hyper-reality to our experience--one that was heightened in the just-moving pulse of the MP4 Clipper Maiden of the Sea (2009) as his camera zoomed slowly in and out on a model of the broken cockpit of the plane that crashed in the Lockerbie, Scotland, bombing of 1988.
The topics include spaces of Jerusalem, Daughter Zion as a gendered space in the Book of Isaiah, the ideology of apocalyptic space, and the hyper-reality of a Japanese Buddhist paradise.
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