Simulation & Hyperreality Jean Baudrillard The Precession of Simulacra, 1980
Hyperreality/Panopticon · Baudrillard • According to theorist Jean Baudrillard, we (as a...
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Hyperreality/Panopticon
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Hyperreality a characteristic of Postmodernism
• Self-less-ness, Depth-less-ness • Focus on surfaces, images over reality
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Simulation/Simulacra
• Simulation is the process in which representations of things come to replace the things being represented
• Representations seem more important than the “real”things themselves
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Baudrillard
• According to theorist Jean Baudrillard, we (as a society) have lost touch with reality.
• We’re hooked into a simulation of reality, made up of television, the Internet, etc.
• This simulation not really a fake, a mere copy of something real. It is another reality, that has a power and meaning that is, if anything, greater than that of the “real” real. This is “hyperreality.”
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“Of Exactitude in Science”
• Jorge Luis Borges’ map story
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Simulacra
• Go one step further than simulations • Simulacra copies of things that no longer have an
original (or never had one to begin with) • Disneyland’s Main Street, USA • Computer icons (no “real” file or document for the
symbols to represent)
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Origins, the “real” no longer as important
• In earlier art, there would be an original and thousands of copies. The original would be of far greater value.
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Contrast Certain Art Forms Today
• CD’s or music recordings. No original valuable in and of itself and kept in a museum. Only copies, all equally valuable.
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Panopticon
• From prison reform ideas of Jeremy Bentham (a Utilitarian philosopher, 1748-1832)
• Such prisons actually intended to be more humane
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Michel Foucault • Panopticon used by French
thinker Michel Foucault in his book Discipline and Punish as a metaphor for modern societies and their tendencies to observe and normalize behaviors.
• We ourselves internalize these expectations and eventually come to “watch” ourselves.