Simulacra and Simulation breaks the sign-order into 4 stages: 1 The first stage is a faithful image/copy, where we believe, and it may even be correct, that a sign is a reflection of a profound reality (pg 6), this is a good appearance, in what Baudrillard called the sacramental order. 2 The second stage is perversion of reality, this is where we come to believe the sign to be an unfaithful copy, which masks and denatures reality as an evil appearance—it is of the order of maleficence. Here, signs and images do not faithfully reveal reality to us, but can hint at the existence of an obscure reality which the sign itself is incapable of encapsulating. 3 The third stage masks the absence of a profound reality, where the simulacrum pretends to be a faithful copy, but it is a copy with no original. Signs and images claim to represent something real, but no representation is taking place and arbitrary images are merely suggested as things which they have no relationship to. Baudrillard calls this the order of sorcery, a regime of semantic algebra where all human meaning is conjured artificially to appear as a reference to the (increasingly) hermetic truth. 4 The fourth stage is pure simulation, in which the simulacrum has no relationship to any reality whatsoever. Here, signs merely reflect other signs and any claim to reality on the part of images or signs is only of the order of other such claims. This is a regime of total equivalency, where cultural products need no longer even pretend to be real in a naïve sense, because the experiences of consumers lives are so predominantly artificial that even claims to reality are expected to be phrased in artificial, hyperreal terms. Any naïve pretension to reality as such is perceived as bereft of critical self-awareness, and thus as oversentimental. BLUR LYRICS Play Music The Universal This is the next century Where the universals free You can find it anywhere Yes, the future has been sold Every night were gone And to karaoke songs How we like to sing a long Although the words are wrong It really, really, really could happen Yes, it really, really, really could happen When the days they seem to fall through you, well just let them go No one here is alone, satellites in every home Yes the universals here, here for everyone Every paper that you read Says tomorrow is your lucky day Well, heres your lucky day It really, really, really could happen Yes, it really, really, really could happen When the days they seem to fall through you, well just let them go Well, it really, really, really could happen Yes, it really, really, really could happen When the days they seem to fall through you, well just let them go Just let them go https://youtube/watch?v=BrbxWOMpwfs
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