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Hyperreality: How Our Tools Came To Control Us - Couverture souple

Mulder, Frank

 
9781725277908: Hyperreality: How Our Tools Came To Control Us
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1725277905 ISBN 13 : 9781725277908
Editeur : Resource Publications, 2021

Synopsis

What is the similarity between battery chicken, iris scans, Facebook friends, and porn videos? They are all features of a technical system built to satisfy our desires and to suppress our fears. It is a so-called hyperreality, an improved version of natural reality, promising wealth, security, and belonging.
However, behind the shiny appearance we can detect a few dangerous mechanisms. Increasingly our tools are controlling us, instead of the other way around, and we are steadily rebuilding the world into a machine with laws we are unable to change.
What are the risks of this machine? How can we discern the illusions of hyperreality? With insights derived from René Girard and Jacques Ellul, among others, this book calls for a joyful spiritual life, in the midst of stubborn reality.

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À propos de l'auteur

Frank Mulder is a freelance journalist in the Netherlands writing for different magazines and newspapers. With his wife and four children he lives in a community with refugees in a poor neighborhood. He likes technological products like his bicycle, but he has no smartphone.

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Éditeur
Resource Publications
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1725277905
ISBN 13 
9781725277908
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
144
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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