书籍介绍
The author introduces the seminal concept of "pseudo-events"--such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are staged solely for publicity--and redefines celebrity as "a person who is known for his well-knownness." The result is an essential resource that distinguishes the deceptions of our culture from its few enduring truths.
用户评论
An extremely perceptive book about the world we are currently faced with. A very suitable follow-up to read after Amusing Ourselves to Death - which will give you more in-depth elaboration on why the media around us and our ways of thinking is getting more and more superficial.
Very important book I read this year. Doors opened: structural anthropology, sociology, hyperreality, postmodernism
假作真时真亦假
Humans have fallen in love with the images we manufactured.
显而易见
上个世纪末的书依旧是当下的问题。如果说事件理论告诉我们如何解决问题，我们真正需要警惕的是伪事件的存在。在某种程度上，这是鲍德里亚的另一番论述，图像和虚拟在取代理念和实在。伪事件具有一种廉价的烂俗，它的触手可及是一种懒惰的惯性。我们爱上了这种超真实的感觉，以至于我们的后现代的存在从未发生过。
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation
好了，Trump要下台了，媒体的红利时代也要降温了，新闻业的危机又来了。布尔斯廷诘问once again
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