HYPERREALITY AND HUMAN EXISTENCE INDON DELILLO’S THE SILENCE (2020): A POSTMODERNIST PERSPECTIVE
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Don DeLillo, Hyperreality, Jean Baudrillard, Postmodernism, Simulacra And Simulation, The SilenceAbstract
In present research, the focus is to show how Don DeLillo in his science fiction ‘The Silence’ negates the hyperreal world and make us familiar to the postmodern world of hyperreality. It essentially aims at portraying how the contemporary world prevailed by hyperreality. It uses Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation; in displaying how digital and techno scientific advancements establish the sense of hyperreality. Textura’s simulacra like complete shutdown of Screen (including Super screen TV, cell phone, laptop and other digital devices), the power of silence (in sudden blackout of American Super Bowl LVI 2022), plane crash landing when airplane technology failed, pass through all the phases of simulation and after replicating repeatedly reach at the hyperreal age. It highlights that sometimes some valuable things like digital technology operator phenomenon, internet and the scientific advancements can create serious challenges to human life as well as their existence. This study evaluates to the people to analyze the impact and challenges of hyperreality and give them spirit to understand the hyperreal world. Thus, the present study declares that reality has been wiped out and replaced with hyperreality.
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