Strategies for Hyperreal Travelers

Conner, James A. "Strategies for Hyperreal Travelers." SFS #59, 20.1 (March 1993): 69-79.

Deals with Jorge Luis Borges and Stanislaw Lem, but mostly for illustration of "two strategies for creating hyperreal cultures. The first is 'apophatic,'" which is "'The Negative Way'" of deconstructing the world "into mirror images, its reality undercut" thereby. The second strategy is "'cataphatic,' or 'The Positive Way,' which raises the sensory order of appearance until it approaches that of the default, real world." Borges and Lem are apophatic in their technique; the people who produce and use Virtual Reality (VR) technology are cataphatic, which JAC may prefer (79; Abstract, italics removed).

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