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Being Nothing: George W. Bush as Presidential Simulacrum

Hamilton, Caroline V. (2004) Being Nothing: George W. Bush as Presidential Simulacrum. C-Theory. ISSN 1190-9153

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Abstract

This article appropriates ideas from Being There and Baudrillard's Gulf War pieces in order to propose that George W. Bush is a simulation, a virtual figure upgraded from a prototype like that of Chance the Gardener. I am not interested in George W. Bush's corporeal being but rather in his flatness and in the way that his obvious deficiencies are "spun" by supposedly disinterested media pundits. Bush's estrangement from the real -- evident in his unfamiliarity with geography, history, ordinary English syntax and semantics, and a fund of common knowledge -- stems from his own lack of reality. George W. Bush does not exist.


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Item Type: Article
Status: Published
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Hamilton, Caroline V.
Date: 13 July 2004
Date Type: Publication
Journal or Publication Title: C-Theory
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs: Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > English
Refereed: Yes
ISSN: 1190-9153
Official URL: http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=427
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Date Deposited: 05 May 2011 16:05
Last Modified: 20 Dec 2018 00:55
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/5849

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