In the beginning of the movie The Matrix when we first see Neo hes at home on a computer and gets a knock at the door. They give him money and he goes to a book called Simulacra and Simulation and pulls out the item for the buyers. Well... I am now reading this book that was wrote in 1981 by Jean Baudrillard. Heres a bit about it... Simulacra and Simulation is most known for its discussion of symbols, signs, and how they relate to contemporaneity (simultaneous existences). Baudrillard claims that our current society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbols and signs, and that human experience is of a simulation of reality. Moreover, these simulacra are not merely mediations of reality, nor even deceptive mediations of reality; they are not based in a reality nor do they hide a reality, they simply hide that anything like reality is relevant to our current understanding of our lives. The simulacra that Baudrillard refers to are the significations and symbolism of culture and media that construct perceived reality, the acquired understanding by which our lives and shared existence is and are rendered legible; Baudrillard believed that society has become so saturated with these simulacra and our lives so saturated with the constructs of society that all meaning was being rendered meaningless by being infinitely mutable. Baudrillard called this phenomenon the precession of simulacra. #ThinkAboutIt #WakeTheFlockUp
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 20:27:52 +0000
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