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[Soci250] 1126 notes Baudrillard
Course: SOCI 250, Fall 2007School: UNC
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* Baudrillard "Operational negativity" (p 9) negative in relation to positive we only define something by its opposite meaning as self-referential * "Reality/truth principle" (p 3) "real reality," illusion becomes reality * Feigning/Representing vs. Simulating - Feigning: like faking illness; "character acting" - Simulating: creating...
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* Baudrillard "Operational negativity" (p 9) negative in relation to positive we only define something by its opposite meaning as self-referential
* "Reality/truth principle" (p 3) "real reality," illusion becomes reality
* Feigning/Representing vs. Simulating - Feigning: like faking illness; "character acting" - Simulating: creating illness, assume the characteristics of it; "method acting" * Key concepts in Baudrillard Concept Simulacrum/simulation Hyperreal Baudrillards definition To feign to have what one hasnt (p 2) Based on something that product of models hyperspace exists; of "the an Baudrillards example Disneyland Starbucks best Your own example
irradiacting synthesis combinatory in a without
atmosphere"(p 2);
* Baudrillard: Reading Questions "Phases of the image" (p 484) Orders of simulacra (p 475)
First
phase: imitation (pretending to be
"First-order simulacra": aiming to represent reality "Second-order simulacra": aiming to misrepresent reality, but still acknowledging that reality exists "Third-order simulacra": denying that the invention is an imitation, pretending to be unreal, invention of imitation, or imitation of invention (pretending to pretend)
something) Second phase: denial (pretending something doesnt exist) Third phase: invention (pretending that exists) something Fourth phase ("pure simulacrum"): autonomy (no relation to the real)
* Key phrases: nothing beyond image no reality beneath perceptions image precedes reality signs/symbols once masked reality, how they are reality no longer imitations but own reality Images, signs, symbols - real things in the real world Ideals/perceptions/associations ads, clothes, icons, celebrities; product, status, values, norms -> created by people, fundamentally arbitrary "Commodity culture" arbitrary signs, basis for life; consumption and production of signs, buy into it, power involved * Hyperreal : reality brought forth through simulation - blurring of imaginary & real - lost what is real
Abstraction, simulation, hyperreal How should we tell the difference, medication, etc The product of simulation is hyperreal and it can not be ,,real
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medication/psychology/military Religion and the simulacrum of divinity, but are the simulated images of the divine real? Iconoclasts ,,this death of the divine referential needs to be exorcised at all cost Iconolaters, Jesuits ,,But what if God can be simulated? Representation and simulacrum When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning Simulation appears in the phase real neo-real and hyperreal
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