Daniel J. Boorstin

Discusses news gathering, celebrity, travel, prestige, and the American dream

A Guide to Pseudo-events in America

The Image

Hannah Yang

Still (disturbingly) relevant book that discusses just about every aspect of our unreal experiences through the all-encompassing frame of pseudoevents. For each facet of pseudoevents that Boorstin identified and unveiled, I could think of dozens of recent examples exemplifying their iridescent ambiguity / confounding comforts. Honestly, I think reading The Image and similar books is essential for coming to terms with (learning to see past the illusion that we have defeated illusion??) the world we live in because, after all, "each of us must emancipate himself [...] by the law of pseudoevents, all efforts at mass disenchantment themselves only embroider our illusions."

The Image A Guide to Pseudo-events in America

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