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"All of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of the hyperreal and of simulation. It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology), but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus saving the reality principle" (Baudrillard 355).
What are your views on reality TV? Do you buy into it? How do you feel when you watch it?
What do you think about people who become their acting roles to seriously? (i.e. Heidi with plastic surgery, Heath Ledger playing the role of the Joker)
"Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. ... It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire, but our own. The desert of the real itself" (Baudrillard 350).
The real is produced from miniaturised units, from matrices, memory banks and command models - and with these it can be reproduced an indefinite amount of times. It no longer has to be rational, since it is no longer measured against some ideal or negative instance. It is nothing more then operational. (Baudrillard 351)
"There is a proliferation of myths of origin and signs of reality; a second-hand truth, objectivity and authenticity. There is an escalation of the true, of the lived experience; a resurrection of the figurative where the object and the substance have disappeared." (Baudrillard 354)
i·con·o·clast [ahy-kon-uh-klast]
noun
a breaker or destroyer of images, especially those set up for religious veneration.
i·con·o·clasm [ahy-kon-uh-klaz-uhm]
noun
the action or spirit of iconoclasts
i·co·nol·a·tor [ahy-kuh-nol-uh-tree]
noun
a worshiper or adorner of icons.
“To simulate is to feign to have what one hasn’t… But the matter is more complicated, since to simulate is not simply to feign: ‘Someone who feigns an illness can simply go to bed and make believe he is ill. Someone who simulates an illness produces in himself some of the symptoms’”
“…simulation threatens the difference between ‘true’ and ‘false’, between ‘real’ and ‘imaginary’. Since the simulator produces ‘true’ symptoms, is he ill or not? He cannot be treated objectively either as ill, or as not ill. Psychology and medicine stop at this point, before a thereafter undiscoverable truth of the illness” (Baudrillard, 114).
Jacquie