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The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes.…

— J. G. Ballard

We all know that the 'reality' of reality TV is an artful construction, an effect not only of editing but of a Lorenzian rat-in-a-mirrored-labyrinth…

— Mark Fisher

All entertainment is an element of fantasy because you are seeing something that is not quite real. There is no such thing as reality…

— Bruce Campbell

I don't believe in simulationism, I believe that the word is already old-fashioned. As I see it, new technologies are substituting a virtual reality…

— Paul Virilio

It is far easier to be entertained by a reality TV than to participate in our own reality.

— Bruce H. Lipton

You will never experience less reality than when you are watching a reality show. You're watching people who aren't actors, put into situations created…

— Dana Gould

Simulations directly relate to the process of and complications in photography. They also overtly create layers of fantasies, myths and interventions... The simulation confuses…

— Taryn Simon

People can now get to see anything they want, in any shape or form, anywhere, on laptop, iPad or 'phone. What's not controllable, though,…

— Mel Giedroyc

Virtual reality's been around for 40 years. People have been talking about storytelling in that world for all these years, and there have been…

— Edwin Catmull

“The human brain can be compared to a modern flight simulator in several respects. Like a flight simulator, it constructs and continuously updates an…

— Thomas Metzinger

A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something symbolically, as…

— Heinz Pagels

Even though reality TV is very manipulated, it's all manipulated so that something real happens. And so, our job in this era is to…

— Josh Pais