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If I Only Had a Brain: The Capgras Delusion, Simulacra,and Fiction in The Echo Maker and Jackass 3D
2016
Literature of the Americas
This paper explores the creation of (a sense of) reality in Richard Powers' 2006 novel The Echo Maker and Jean Baudrillard's theory of simulacra, especially as that latter is applied by Kevin Casper to the 2010 movie Jackass 3D. The focus is on neurology, or perhaps neurophilosophy, rather than literary criticism or film studies, or even Baudrillard's cultural theory: the various cultural texts are interrogated for what their explicit and implicit neurological theories can tell us about how we
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