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Introduction, Elisabeth Kraus and Carolin Auer. Part 1 Simulacra inliterature - history and human identity: simulacrum as sub-text - fictionwriting in the face of media representations of American history, RudigerKunow; simulacrum versus death - an American dilemma in Don DeLillo's "WhiteNoise", Arno Heller; experiments on living matter or how to save thenarrative from extinction - the unfinished story of Jean Baudrillard's andDon DeLillo's cultural pathology, Michael Stockinger; pop goes the novel -avant-pop literature and the tradition of the new, Peter Schneck; (the)playing author - narrativity and identity in literature and interactivemedia, Karin Esders. Part 2 Simulacra in science fiction - cyberspace,cyborgs and cybernetic discourse: return from the implants - cyberpunk'sschizophrenic futures, Pavel Frelik; terminal notions of what we may become -synthflesh, cyberreality, and the post-human body, Louis J. Kern; "just affixmy reality" -Pat Cadigan's constructions of subjectivity, Elisabeth Kraus;warp 9 to hyperreality - information velocity and the end of the space age,Alen Vitas; interrogation from hyperspace - visions of culture in neuromancerand "war without end", Herbert Shu-Shun Chan. Part 3 The commodification ofdifference and the simulation of co-identity: pop as a difference engine -music, markets and marginality, Ruth Mayer; subverting the Tonto stereotypein popular fiction, or , why Indians say "ugh!", Diane Krumrey; "a transcriptfrom real life" - the simulated reality of the social reportage, CarolinAuer; queering ethnicity, queering sexuality - a paradigmatic shift in thepolitics of cinematic representation in Cheryl Dunye's "The Watermelon Woman"(1996), Andrea B. Braidt; about something queer - simulated sexualities in"Bound" and "Showgirls", Jeanne Cortiel. Part 4 Issues of ideology - thepolitics and cultural politics of film: Hollywood and the decline of Europeanempire, John Trumphour; the nation and the void -simulacrum America in anAmerican documentary film, Roberta Maierhofer.