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Simulcra - the matrix
Topic Started: Jan 23 2012, 08:27 PM (990 Views)
yass
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When I see a word I'm not familiar with I look it up. Recently, the word was simulcra. It was more of a word than I expected and it took some time to get my head around it and comprehend its meaning. It really explains the matrix we're in and how we're manipulated day in and day through media. We live in a illusion which has replaced reality - simulcra.

Jean Baudrillard explains simulcra:

Simulacra
 


Simulacra - in the era of television - are copies of things that no longer have an original (or never had one to begin with).

      Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory - PRECESSION OF SIMULACRA - it is the map that engenders the territory....(Baudrillard, 1994, p. 1)

Advertising assists in constituting signs and codes that appear to represent social reality - in actuality, they represent an autonomous realm of hyperreality that has relatively little to do with the 'real' as we have come to define it.

Jean Baudrillard points to a reversal of the relation between representation and reality where the media are coming to constitute a (hyper)reality, a media reality which seems "more real than real" (Kellner, 1991). The distinction between the real and the representation collapses and dissolves away. All that truly can be said to be left is the simulacra itself.

http://it.stlawu.edu/~global/glossary/simulacra.def.html



Today I ran across a video which is a prime example of simulcra:




Uploaded by middleeast2009 on Aug 9, 2009
translation from Arabic
See how Al-Saud contribute their money and their oil and their behavior abnormal defaming Arabs and Muslims in the West
And do not forget that Al Saud funds invested in Western banks and companies and institutions to distort the image of the Arab, and without that money stored in the United States rebounded to Hollywood and other media companies in promoting their goods racism against Arabs and Muslims
It is enough to know that Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud is a partner of his brother in the blood and belief

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=02fMqtLErL4

I had to get the video from another youtube page as the video on the Arabic page didn't have a working address.

More reading about simulcra:

BAUdrillard and the "Three Orders of the SIMulaCRA"

http://it.stlawu.edu/~global/glossary/simulacra.jl.html


Advertising Simulacrum

http://it.stlawu.edu/~global/glossary/baudrillard.bacardi.html


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Someone posted a video of Baudrillard speaking on the topic. It took me a few moments of adjusting to his English but I managed it.

The Murder of the Real



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOIjI2gFizM&feature=player_embedded
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Recently I noticed this word in the movie "The Matrix". It's the book he picks up...



I had been meaning to look this up and your post helped a lot. It certainly resonates with the movie.


I enlarged the screen and took a screenshot of the book cover.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smwrw4sNCxE&feature=player_embedded
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Edited by yass, Jan 25 2012, 02:57 PM.
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Hi Yass,

Here's more on Simulcra:

http://www.montalk.net/HumanSimulacra.pdf

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Hi Yass,

Here's more on Simulcra:

http://www.montalk.net/HumanSimulacra.pdf

:)
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