Simulacra+Simulations. Simulacra and Simulations - I. The Precession of Simulacra. The simulacrum is never what hides the truth - it is truth that hides the fact that there is none.
The simulacrum is true. -Ecclesiastes. SIMULACRA AND SIMULATIONS - 1998. The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth — it is the truth which conceals that there is none.
The simulacrum is true.Ecclesiastes If we were able to take as the finest allegory of simulation the Borges tale where the cartographers of the Empire draw up a map so detailed that it ends up exactly covering the territory (but where, with the decline of the Empire this map becomes frayed and finally ruined, a few shreds still discernible in the deserts — the metaphysical beauty of this ruined abstraction, bearing witness to an imperial pride and rotting like a carcass, returning to the substance of the soil, rather as an aging double ends up being confused with the real thing), this fable would then have come full circle for us, and now has nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacra.l Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. Realer than Real: The Simulacrum According to Deleuze and Guattari.
The Simulacrum According to Deleuze and Guattari Brian Massumi.
Originally published in Copyright no.1, 1987. Links to other works by Brian Massumi on the Web There is a seductive image of contemporary culture circulating today. Our world, Jean Baudrillard tells us, has been launched into hyperspace in a kind of postmodern apocalypse. And so we gape. It makes for a fun read. Deleuze and Guattari open a third way. A common definition of the simulacrum is a copy of a copy whose relation to the model has become so attenuated that it can no longer properly be said to be a copy. The resemblance of the simulacrum is a means, not an end. Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner shows that the ultimate enemy in this war of ruse is the so-called "model" itself. I said earlier that the simulacrum cannot adequately be discussed in terms of copy and model, and now I find myself not only talking about a model again, but claiming that it is in a life and death struggle with the simulacrum. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Baudrillard Short Introduction. Simulation, simulacrum (1) Simulation, simulacrum (1) Whether or not we live in a world of simulacra, the term is certainly important in light of how we view media.
Media theorists, especially Jean Baudrillard, have been intensely concerned with the concept of the simulation in lieu of its interaction with our notion of the real and the original, revealing in this preoccupation media's identity not as a means of communication, but as a means of representation (the work of art as a reflection of something fundamentally "real"). When media reach a certain advanced state, they integrate themselves into daily "real" experience to such an extent that the unmediated sensation is indistinguishable from the mediated, and the simulation becomes confused with its source. Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation « Adrian Park. The reading for our Thinking session later today is Jean Baudrillard’s utterly enigmatic .
I have to say that I found it totally impenetrable and rather pretentious! Unfortunately I have no tolerance for pretentiousness and I maintain the suspicion that it is a ploy to disguise a lack of substance (you might say pretentiousness is the 3rd stage of – “it masks the absence of a profound reality”. You read it here first!). An account in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Baudrillard and his writing indicates that, at the time he wrote this essay, “his writing attempts to itself simulate the new conditions, capturing its novelties through inventive use of language and theory”. I admire this approach for its ingenuity and creativity but it makes it pretty unapproachable for a first time reader.
We were asked to summarise the reading in 10 points. Firstly, I didn’t fully understand the meaning of so: Summary 1st paragraph. 127 words. 1 sentence. …one coffee later… Introduction to Jean Baudrillard, Module on Simulacra and Simulation. Simulacra definition. Simulacra - in the era of television - are copies of things that no longer have an original (or never had one to begin with).
Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it.