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This document discusses how the 20th century was defined by a "passion for the real" through directly confronting and experiencing reality in its most extreme violence. However, efforts to isolate the "real kernel" of reality inevitably end up reducing reality to pure appearance and theatrical spectacle. This is exemplified by Stalinist show trials which staged a "truth" no one believed. Similarly, postmodern virtual reality provides a substance-less version of reality as an "effect" or spectacle, culminati

Author

Inês Alves

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EN