Ickapoo has to distinguish between image or simulacral reality and actual truth behind the glossy, deceptive image.
Reality television explodes the division between the hyperreal and the real, but what it ultimately represents is the triumph of the hyperreal and the manufactured image. Specifically, when a consciousness loses its ability to distinguish reality from fantasy, and begins to engage with the latter without understanding what it is doing, it has shifted into the world of the hyperreal. The nature of the hyperreal world is characterised by "enhancement" of reality. As Derrida argues, it is an “artifactuality" that is produced and made rather than a record.(Echographies of Television, 41). Record here means something that is an exact representation of events. It also serves to sa
