Signs in science : despair and emptiness.

• Main Author: Tham, Tammy Samantha.
• Other Authors: Andrew Corey Yerkes
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/18893
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Never Let Me Go, The Stone Gods, The Possibility Of An Island are texts that demonstrate a world created by means of the non-real. This process is best understood if we approach the texts through Jean Baudrillard’s three orders of simulacra: imitation, production and simulation. The characters exper...