Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism 9781503616783

Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum—sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously

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Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism
 9781503616783

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PHANTOM

COMMUNITIES

SCOTT DURHAM

Phantom Communities The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism

STA"'FORD STANFORD,

UNIVERSITY PRESS CALIFORNIA

Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 1998 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University Printed in the United States of America CIP

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the friends and colleagues who read parts of this manuscript at various stages, from whose comments and suggestions I have benefited: Jean-Fran