Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to philosophical
hyperreality ;perceivable as real by consciousness, though potentially unreal. - adjective mathematics, of a number Belonging to an extension of the
real numbers containing only those that cannot be produced by repeatedly adding 1; henceinfinite . - noun A
hyperreal number .
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Examples
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The hyperreal is a system of simulation simulating itself.
Postmodernism Aylesworth, Gary 2005
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(2:37) China: "I think the kind of hyperreal, apparently-moralist (though often not) intense scrutiny of the everyday in the best crime fiction makes it amazingly powerful as a form."
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This ties back to some of the reference material we used for actual buildings in the game and gives the whole blog a kind of hyperreal quality that I love.
Click Nothing clinthocking 2008
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Replicating the world exactly had been Matton's passions, and his artistic journey began with painting hyperreal interiors that he eventually extrapolated into three-dimensions, creating rooms with walls exactly as he would have painted them on canvas, drawing cracks on the patina, filtering sun and shade on the furniture, miniaturizing the effects of light itself.
Kisa Lala: Architect of Illusions: Charles Matton's Enclosures Kisa Lala 2011
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Because Lennon's continuum is comprised of spiraling texts of conflicted humanity and creativity, it demands that we work hard to remember what real even means anymore, which gets harder and harder as every hyperreal day passes.
Scott Thill: John Lennon: Working Class Mythmaker Scott Thill 2010
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At once hyperreal and unnatural, Kim Keever's radiant vista "West 104k" 2009, also echoes sublime landscapes by Thomas Cole or J.M.W. Turner.
A Small World After All Kristin M. Jones 2011
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The thing is, in all these stories, by numerous authors of literary fiction, characters have this hyperreal awareness of their own misery, and comment upon it ...
On Mimetic and Maieutic Fiction Hal Duncan 2009
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Replicating the world exactly had been Matton's passions, and his artistic journey began with painting hyperreal interiors that he eventually extrapolated into three-dimensions, creating rooms with walls exactly as he would have painted them on canvas, drawing cracks on the patina, filtering sun and shade on the furniture, miniaturizing the effects of light itself.
Kisa Lala: Architect of Illusions: Charles Matton's Enclosures Kisa Lala 2011
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Rather than representing the final fetid flowering of Florentine painting, Bronzino now seems like a mesmerising and hyperreal precursor to Caravaggio.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010
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Because Lennon's continuum is comprised of spiraling texts of conflicted humanity and creativity, it demands that we work hard to remember what real even means anymore, which gets harder and harder as every hyperreal day passes.
Scott Thill: John Lennon: Working Class Mythmaker Scott Thill 2010
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