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
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