- Faith in Fakes
"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" [http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_faq.html] , 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" [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3vxCAAAACAAJ Faith in Fakes at Google Books] ] and later updated as "Travels In Hyperreality " [ [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YfBrAAAACAAJ Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality at Google Books] ] in 1995 [Eco, U., "Faith In Fakes: Travels In Hyperreality", Picador 1987, ISBN 978-0330296670] .Content
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 modernAmericana such as wax museums,Superman andholography , and the other articles discuss a number of other subjects, includingfootball , theMiddle Ages ,Jim Jones and thePeople's Temple , and tight jeans.References
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