Faith in Fakes
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- | The book is a collection of articles from mainly Italian newspapers and magazines about the wider subject of human consciousness, including Eco's own subject of [[semiotics]]. The subjects of the main essay includes modern [[Americana]] such as wax museums, [[Superman]] and [[holography]], and the other articles discuss a number of other subjects, including [[football]], the [[Middle Ages]], [[Jim Jones]] and the [[People's Temple]], and tight jeans. | + | The book is a collection of articles from mainly Italian newspapers and magazines about the wider subject of human consciousness, including Eco's own subject of [[semiotics]]. The subjects of the main essay includes modern [[Americana]] such as [[wax museum]]s, [[Superman]] and [[holography]], and the other articles discuss a number of other subjects, including [[football]], the [[Middle Ages]], [[Jim Jones]] and the [[People's Temple]], and tight [[jeans]]. |
==See also== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Disneyfication]] | *[[Disneyfication]] |
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"Il costume di casa" ("Faith In Fakes") was originally an essay written in 1975 by the Italian semiotician Umberto Eco, about "America's obsession with simulacra and counterfeit reality", later incorporated as the centrepiece of a collection of articles and essays bearing the same name. It was translated into English in 1986 as Faith In Fakes in 1995.
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The book is a collection of articles from mainly Italian newspapers and magazines about the wider subject of human consciousness, including Eco's own subject of semiotics. The subjects of the main essay includes modern Americana such as wax museums, Superman and holography, and the other articles discuss a number of other subjects, including football, the Middle Ages, Jim Jones and the People's Temple, and tight jeans.
See also