HYPER-REALITY

We now live in a world of hyper-reality, in which simulations of reality appear to be more real than the genuine thing. Hyper-reality is the generation of reality without genesis by models. It is the incapacity of awareness to discern reality from a simulation of reality. This theory describes how the distinction between real and fake is blurred, particularly in postmodern civilizations with advanced technology. What our mind identifies as real in the world can be hyperreal. Hyper-reality is the generation of a real event without origin or reality. It is a representation, a sign without an original referent. It's more real than real, to the extreme. What we basically have is an aggrevate 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.