David R. Castillo is Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.William Egginton is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Following the views of postmodern theorists that the media now represent a hyperreal world, one that is constructed/configured by media impressions of reality, the authors see the media as arbiters and editors of a world presented as a commodity to a public. They wed such perspectives to the growth of modernism, individualism, science’s power to render things objectively, and the agency of artists to render the world subjectively … Extending into today’s politics, politicians like Trump copy images of America’s past to apply to America’s future. Media participate in acts of transformative reality, a series of codes parsing the world for personal consumption, making the real world I-world.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: MedialogiesPart I: Inflationary Media1. Editing Reality2. A New Perspective 3. Theatricality 4. Commodity-Spectacles 5. How to Turn Things into Copies, and Copies into Things Part II: Fundamentals 6. Ineffable Me7. Foundations8. Freedom for Sale9. Crime Shows10. Political Theater11. Monumental Screens 12. The New FundamentalsPart III: Exclusions 13. Terrifying Vistas of Reality14. Dreamboat Vampires and Zombie Capitalists15. The Global Undead16. Dark Mirrors17. Apocalypse Then and Now Part IV: In Defense of Being 18. Minor Strategies19. Stranger Than Fiction20. Truth and Lies in Life and Art21. Staging the Event 22. The Architecture of Mourning23. Occupy and Resist24. New Empires Epilogue

David R. Castillo is Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.William Egginton is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Following the views of postmodern theorists that the media now represent a hyperreal world, one that is constructed/configured by media impressions of reality, the authors see the media as arbiters and editors of a world presented as a commodity to a public. They wed such perspectives to the growth of modernism, individualism, science’s power to render things objectively, and the agency of artists to render the world subjectively … Extending into today’s politics, politicians like Trump copy images of America’s past to apply to America’s future. Media participate in acts of transformative reality, a series of codes parsing the world for personal consumption, making the real world I-world.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: MedialogiesPart I: Inflationary Media1. Editing Reality2. A New Perspective 3. Theatricality 4. Commodity-Spectacles 5. How to Turn Things into Copies, and Copies into Things Part II: Fundamentals 6. Ineffable Me7. Foundations8. Freedom for Sale9. Crime Shows10. Political Theater11. Monumental Screens 12. The New FundamentalsPart III: Exclusions 13. Terrifying Vistas of Reality14. Dreamboat Vampires and Zombie Capitalists15. The Global Undead16. Dark Mirrors17. Apocalypse Then and Now Part IV: In Defense of Being 18. Minor Strategies19. Stranger Than Fiction20. Truth and Lies in Life and Art21. Staging the Event 22. The Architecture of Mourning23. Occupy and Resist24. New Empires Epilogue

David R. Castillo is Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.William Egginton is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Following the views of postmodern theorists that the media now represent a hyperreal world, one that is constructed/configured by media impressions of reality, the authors see the media as arbiters and editors of a world presented as a commodity to a public. They wed such perspectives to the growth of modernism, individualism, science’s power to render things objectively, and the agency of artists to render the world subjectively … Extending into today’s politics, politicians like Trump copy images of America’s past to apply to America’s future. Media participate in acts of transformative reality, a series of codes parsing the world for personal consumption, making the real world I-world.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: MedialogiesPart I: Inflationary Media1. Editing Reality2. A New Perspective 3. Theatricality 4. Commodity-Spectacles 5. How to Turn Things into Copies, and Copies into Things Part II: Fundamentals 6. Ineffable Me7. Foundations8. Freedom for Sale9. Crime Shows10. Political Theater11. Monumental Screens 12. The New FundamentalsPart III: Exclusions 13. Terrifying Vistas of Reality14. Dreamboat Vampires and Zombie Capitalists15. The Global Undead16. Dark Mirrors17. Apocalypse Then and Now Part IV: In Defense of Being 18. Minor Strategies19. Stranger Than Fiction20. Truth and Lies in Life and Art21. Staging the Event 22. The Architecture of Mourning23. Occupy and Resist24. New Empires Epilogue