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Synopsis
Krug believes there are few truths, only multiple tellings, and so he examines his themes mainly as a series of conversations based on interconnecting tropes. For example, he analyzes how people watching the events of 9/11 on television reacted to the "live" event, and how access to pornography and control of its content represent the realities of the social order. He describes the technologies of language in terms of the current thinking on what constitutes "text," agrees that memory is now in fact mainly a backdrop to the self, and describes how relative truth can be, given the power of the modern military industrial complex to control and manipulate it. He closes by describing the new metaphysics of technology and its implications for what we perceive as "real" and "self." Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR