Alan N. Shapiro, Hypermodernism, Hyperreality, Posthumanism

Blog and project archive about media theory, science fiction theory, and creative coding

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The Third Order of Simulacra: Simulation and Hyperreality

August 6th, 2024 in the categories: Jean Baudrillard

The third order of simulacra in Baudrillard’s genealogy is also known as simulation: the system of objects, the consumer society, the system of models and series, simulated differences generated by “the code,” the post-World War II era of media, shopping mall architectures, and the American way of life.
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The Controversy Around Baudrillard

August 6th, 2024 in the categories: Jean Baudrillard

The diagnosis of simulation, simulacra, virtuality, and hyperreality in contemporary culture is not the main concern of Baudrillard's work. The main concern of his work is to open a new knowledge field of reflection on and investigation into the possibilities of the challenge to the sim- ulacrum.
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Early Baudrillard

August 6th, 2024 in the categories: Jean Baudrillard

The postmodern recombinant culture of cyber-commodities is a system of simulated differences or differences-in-sameness. The sign-object takes on its meaning in a system of marginal or minimal differences from other sign-objects, according to a code of hierarchical significations (Coke and Pepsi, McDonalds and Burger King, formula-generated episodes of a TV series).