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Resource type: Book ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-0472065219 BibTeX citation key: Baudrillard1994 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Hyperrealism, Simulacra, Simulation Creators: Baudrillard, Glaser Publisher: The University of Michigan Press |
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"The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernism.The publication of "Simulacra et Simulation" in 1981 marked Jean Baudrillard's first important step toward theorizing the postmodern. Moving away from the Marxist/Freudian approaches that had concerned him earlier, Baudrillard developed in this book a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure.Baudrillard uses the concepts of the simulacra - the copy without an original - and simulation. These terms are crucial to an understanding of the postmodern, to the extent that they address the concept of mass reproduction and reproduceability that characterizes our electronic media culture.Baudrillard's book represents a unique and original effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a new concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body."
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p.1, Chapter the precession of simulacra
"[Simulation] is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal."
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p.2, Chapter the precession of simulacra
"The signs of the real [are substituted] for the real."
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p.3, Chapter the precession of simulacra
"simulation threatens the difference between the "true" and the "fake," the "real" and the "imaginary."
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p.19, Chapter the precession of simulacra
"Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible."
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p.2, Chapter the precession of simulacra
The real no longer coincides with simulation models. They are no longer co-existent.
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Keywords: Hyperrealism Simulacra Simulation |