Frank Mulder is a freelance journalist in the Netherlands writing for different magazines and newspapers. With his wife and four children he lives in a community with refugees in a poor neighborhood. He likes technological products like his bicycle, but he has no smartphone.
"Hyperreality is about a lot more than 'how our tools control us, '
as its subtitle promises. 'How our modern culture has gone badly
wrong--and a possible way back for people' is the bigger message I
read. Mulder's superb journalistic skills describe how our mad
desires for wealth and consumer goods, for security and safety, and
for social affirmation and acceptance are doomed to fail in our
lived reality. . . . The 'hyper' reality on our screens seduces and
distracts us away from the actual reality of people and nature all
around us. . . . I will be recommending Hyperreality to all of my
thoughtful, reflective friends."
--David W. Gill, President, International Jacques Ellul Society
"In the spirit of Ellul and Girard, Frank Mulder interrogates the
extraordinarily virtual realities we now inhabit. Whether or not we
share Mulder's faith in our inevitable deliverance, we can benefit
from his keen insights on the way we have used technology to
surround ourselves with illusions of choice, control, and
immortality."
--Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock and Team Human
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