As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, we've become so removed from reality that we're starting to prefer artificiality.
Adam Leith GollnerTags: fruit page-196 simulacra
Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
Roger ZelaznyTags: life death apocalypse armageddon post-modernism cinema simulacra end-of-the-world
The strategic problem is, of course, that simulacra are reassuring only when viewed from outside. They do not provide an existential model for how to be in the world. One can appreciate the brilliance of the embalmer's work, but one would not want to be its object.
Charles BernheimerThe New or Future Eve is emptied of all inner life and turned into a shell. The bitter irony in this is that her perfection recalls nothing so much as a corpse.
Asti HustvedtTags: woman corpse simulacra robot android
Whence the possibility of an ideological analysis of Disneyland (L. Marin did it very well in Utopiques, jeux d'espace [Utopias, play of space]): digest of the American way of life, panegyric of American values, idealized transposition of a contradictory reality. Certainly. But this masks something else and this "ideological" blanket functions as a cover for a simulation of the third order: Disneyland exists in order to hide that it is the "real" country, all of "real" America that is Disneyland (a bit like prisons are there to hide that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, that is carceral). Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order 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 of saving the reality principle.
Jean BaudrillardTags: america disneyland simulacra simulation
Doomsday, when it came, wouldn't be a physical phenomenon; it would be an
all-inclusive erasure of simulectronic circuits.
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How do we know that even the realest of realities
wouldn't be subjective, in the final analysis? Nobody can prove his existence, can he?
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