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You Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Hyperreality and Leisure Theory

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Taking Jean Baudrillard’s notion of the hyperreal and extending it to include the work of Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek, this chapter looks at how the combination of the three named distinct, singular theorists might change leisure theory and its ongoing engagement with the concept of hyperreality in the context of globalisation and digitisation.

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    Symbolic exchange in Baudrillard’s work in part relates to the gift economy in pre-modern barter societies, where the idea of exchanges of “gifts” rather than commodities is prominent. But Baudrillard’s notion of symbolic exchange goes further than this and forms part of a general critique of reality in both modernity and postmodernity which he makes in his work.

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    The Louis Althusser/Etienne Balibar version was first published in 1968. An abridged version of the original 1965 text by Althusser and Balibar and also Ranciere, Macherey and Establet was published by Maspero as Lire Le Capital Vols 1 and 2. Althusser’s co-author Etiennne Balibar himself was one of the speakers at the Princeton University conference in the USA in November 2013, which celebrated the publication, 48 years previously, of Althusser and Balibar’s continuously influential book.

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  1. Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law, Flinders University, GPO Box 210, Adelaide, SA, 5100, Australia

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  1. Carnegie Faculty, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Karl Spracklen

  2. Carnegie Faculty, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Brett Lashua

  3. Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada

    Erin Sharpe

  4. Health and Life Sciences, York St John’s University, Leeds, United Kingdom

    Spencer Swain

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Redhead, S. (2017). You Make Me Feel Mighty Real: Hyperreality and Leisure Theory. In: Spracklen, K., Lashua, B., Sharpe, E., Swain, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56479-5_44

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