pornography i removed pornography from examples of hyperreality though i certainly understand what the author was thinking not everything considered pornographic by everyone's standards is necessarily hyperreal without delving into the differing definitions of pornography there's a specific example i can think of which illustrates my argument let's say someone makes an amateur video of him or herself having intercourse and let's postulate that this person decides to sell said video for whatever reason since it's a depiction of a sex act and it's being distributed this video would be considered pornographic by most definitions nothing about it however is inherently hyperreal someone might be interested in purchasing it for the purpose of sexual arousal and i acknowledge that being aroused by a digital representation is clearly a hyperreal act but that doesn't make this piece of pornography hyperreal in and of itself this might be an odd example but i think it serves to illustrate that pornography is too vague and subjective a concept to consider inherently hyperreal but perhaps i'm totally wrong