Dystopic Simulacra, Virtual Identities and Cultural Implosion in Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story
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This paper offers a critique of contemporary media culture, virtual identities, and simulacra in the implosion cultural human values. The culture is characterized by reality,which reduces traditional concept interaction, language, culture. interprets GarryShteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story light Jameson, Baudrillard Nicol's concepts Shteyngart’s novel takes dystopic view consumer society where lives are subject to social feeds, subjectivity nothing more than an algorithm credit ranking. In this situation, Jameson's aesthetic cognitive mapping can help make sense one's orientation simulation implosion. claims that produce identities at cost which causes
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عنوان ژورنال: Global sociological review
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2708-3586', '2708-2091']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31703/gsr.2022(vii-i).12