CelebricitiesWhat becomes of life, experience, and truth in the hyperconsumeristic culture of the twenty first century? What happens to the phenomenological call to go back to the things themselves when these things, to an ever greater degree, involve a televised life that is not ours to live, celebrities who are utterly like us yet infinitely untouchable, and uncannily pluripotent electronic gadgets? Combining sustained philosophical inquiry with fragmentary and