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Baudrillard's Simulacra And Simulation Analysis

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In a world where the boundaries between real and un-real are often blurred we find that our realities often imitates the un-real more than the real. We are faced with a society where we are more in tune with the hyper real world. Hyper reality is defined as an inability off our consciousness to distinguish reality from a simulated reality, (Oxford dictionary, 2014) The concept of Hyperreality was defined by French sociologist Jean Baudrillard in his work Simulacra and Simulation, where he explored the relationship between Reality, Symbols and Society. Baudrillard states in his work that society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbols and signs and that human experience is a simulation of reality. Simulation referring to the imitation of the operation of the real world process. . (Baudrillard, 1982) According to Baudrillard consciousness is just a cycle in which crisis succeeds crisis and runs away with itself. Meaning changes and it gradually loses value. (Heynen, 1999) Jean Baudrillard theorised that the Beaubourg-Effect creates a chaotic enigma of networks, signals and routes forming the motion toward the social relations of systematic ventilation amongst the surface and monumentalising the structure. Supporting the simulation theory that that we might indeed all be living in a …show more content…

The next order of simulacra involves the copy of the copy of the real and original. Reference is bared by the reproduction of the copy and the original is slowly lost. When the object becomes the third order of simulacra, the production replaces the copy baring all reference to the original. Thus we are left with the reproduction of the real which has now become the real. (Baudrillard,

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