Postmodernizm, literatürde modernizmden sonra tartışmalı bir konu olarak yerini almıştır. Bu dönemde yapılmış pek çok çalışma içerisinde Jean Baudrillard’ın fikirleri dikkat çekmektedir. Baudrillard özellikle hipergerçek anlayışıyla postmodern döneme yeni kapı aralamıştır. Geliştirdiği simülasyon ve simülakr kavramları anlayışını pekiştirirken, gerçeğin değiştirilebilir yanına vurgu yapmaktadır...

Can we burn the signs and journey without maps? In other words, can we travel from representational theories, through Baudrillard's critique of representation, to forms of theory that are somehow nonrepresentational? In this paper I hijack and go beyond Baudrillard's concepts of the precession and orders of simulacra to illustrate two main things: first, how the history of geographical thought ...

Pink Floyd was a British band whose work began in the late 60s. Roger Waters, the main contributor of the band, wrote almost all the lyrics and was also a main figure behind producing the motion picture of the album. He deliberately attacks Western media in both the lyrics he has written for the band and his solo projects. The present study finds this tendency of assaulting the media deeply roo...

We examine a case in which non-computable behavior in a model is revealed by computer simulation. This is possible due to differing notions of computability for sets in a continuous space. The argument originally given for the validity of the simulation involves a simpler simulation of the simulation, still further simulations thereof, and a universality conjecture. There are difficulties with ...

Considerations of two films set in Iowa frame my attempt in this paper to discuss some of the tensions between the meaningfulness of rurality and the evaporation of history in the region's cultural polities of place, A new regional geography emphasizes the historical formation of places, but how is 'history' to be understood and how meaningful a role can it play? These questions are particularl...