Postmodernity indicates significant shifts in text’s autonomy and authenticity. Further, the definition and the (re)production of identity is changed and challenged. The relative fluidity of intertextual postmodernism destabilizes the superstructure, gender, and sexual orientations. Philip Dick’s dystopian science fiction, A Scanner Darkly (1977), predicts the explosive growth of World Wide Web in the symbolic representation of Scramble Suit. His critique of MacDonaldazation of society and his preoccupation with the mutability of ‘identity’ and ‘reality’ reflect the tension in the transitional era of capitalism to late capitalism. The expansion of consumption-based system is a fetishized manifestation of postmodern simulacrum. Linklater’s adaptation of Dick’s novel happens in post-9/11 era where late capitalism is reshaped as oneworldedness. The militant globalization augments the desire for solid identity; late capitalism fulfils this desire by manufacturing life-like simulacra. The precursors of WWW system claim for dialogic utopia, free-accessed data, and new Tarzanism in the realm of (inter)national cultural products. Their claim is overshadowed by global homogenization of cultural products. Who leads and limits information flow or how far and how fast information should flow is still an enigma since the previous power structure—the shareholder of knowledge— is to be replaced. Yet, no power is ready to share the authority.

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