Simulacra and Simulation (The Body, In Theory: Histories Of Cultural Materialism)

Some favourite quotations: "It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, nor even parody. It is a question of substituting the signs of the real for the real, that is to say of an operation of deterring every real process via its operating double." (p.2) (on god) "This is precisely what was feared by Iconoclasts, who millennial quarrel is still with us today . This is precisely because they predicted this omnipotence of simulacra, the faculty simulacra have of effacing God from conscience of man , and the destructive annihilating truth that they allow to appear - that deep down God never existed, that only simulacrum ever existed, even God himself was never anything but his own simulacrum - from this came their urge to destroy the images." (p.4) "We are fascinated by Ramses as Renaissance Christians were by the American Indians, those (human?) beings who had never know the word of Christ. Thus at the beginning of colonization , there was a moment of stupor and bewilderment before the very possibility of escaping the universal law of the Gospel. There were two possible responses: either admit that this Law was not universal, or exterminate the Indians to efface the evidence. In general, one contented oneself with converting them , or even simply discovering them, which would suffice to slowly exterminate them." (p.10) "Parody renders submission and transgression equivalent, and that is the most serious crime, because it cancels out the difference upon which the law is based," (p.21) "History is our lost referential, that is to say our myth," (p.43) "Neofiguration is an invocation of resemblance, but at the same time the flagrant proof of the disappearance of objects in their very representation: hyperreal." (p.45) "Today, it is the real that has become the alibi of the model, in a world controlled by the principle of simulation. And paradoxically, it is the real that has become our true utopia - but a utopia that is no longer in the realm of the possible, that can only be dreampt of as one would dream of a lost object." (p.123)

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I first read Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation in French in 1985. Returning to it nearly forty years later was a fascinating reminder that the finest philosophical works do not become dated—they become more revealing as we change. Baudrillard’s examination of reality, representation, signs, and the increasingly blurred boundary between the two feels almost uncannily pertinent to the world we inhabit today. This is not a book to read passively, nor one that necessarily yields its ideas easily. It is a book that makes you stop, question, and reconsider what you have accepted as reality, truth, and even authentic experience. That is precisely its value. For anyone intellectually curious about contemporary culture, media, perception, and the nature of truth, I consider this essential reading. Read it slowly, revisit it later, and expect it to follow you long after you have closed the book. Some books inform us; the rare ones alter the way we look at the world. This is one of them.

very good..

Very difficult to understand unless you have sone background in related topic.

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