Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença (May 2011)

Hierarchy of the Real in Contemporary Performative Mimesis

  • Luiz Fernando Ramos

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 61 – 76

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It departs from the hypothesis of a hierarchy of real(s), with less and more legitimacy, operating in the evaluation of the contemporary spectacular production. The hyper valuation of a given reality, took as a ready-made an instantly, as a source of liveness in the narrative contemporary processes, documentary or artificial, is discussed and seen as metaphysic, against the imaginary works of performative mimesis, which get to strange and amplify the idea of the real.

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