All Monica All The Time: Crowding Out The Public Discourse

• Published in: Administrative theory & praxis Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 486 - 497
• Main Authors: Fox, Charles J., Miller, Hugh T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon Routledge 01.09.2005; Public Administration Theory Network; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Aggregation; Celebrities; Criminal justice; Lifeworld; Phenomena; Philosophers; Philosophy; Political advertising; Political campaigns; Political discourse; Politics; Postmodern philosophy; Postmodernism; Public administration; Public policy; Reification; Signs; Sovereignty; Symposium: Fox and Miller's Postmodern Public Administration Ten Years Later
• ISSN: 1084-1806; 1949-0461
• DOI: 10.1080/10841806.2005.11029502

To utter hyperreality is to imply a reality against which it is counterposed. In view this reality would be the life-world or lebenswelt, the flux and flow of everyday life. Hyperreality is a simulacra of reality or a simulation of reality. Other factors, in less broad strokes, contributing to hyperreality follow. First, there is a proliferation of news sources. Another factor that strikes people is the collapsing of hard news coverage with entertainment: info-tainment. A third closely related contextual development relates to the entertainment industry. Modern films, as a generalization, had clear cut characters. Fifth, people are inundated with commercial messages for a myriad of products, including political candidates. Finally, there is politics and public policy. Admittedly, there are some in the orbit of postmodernism, who, however reluctantly, accept and put a different twist on the simulation of policy and politics.