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Simulacra And Simulation
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Author : Jean Baudrillard
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 1994
Simulacra And Simulation written by Jean Baudrillard and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Art categories.
Develops a theory of contemporary culture that relies on displacing economic notions of cultural production with notions of cultural expenditure. This book represents an effort to rethink cultural theory from the perspective of a concept of cultural materialism, one that radically redefines postmodern formulations of the body.
Simulacrum America
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Author : Elisabeth Kraus
language : en
Publisher: Camden House
Release Date : 2000
Simulacrum America written by Elisabeth Kraus and has been published by Camden House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
A collection of articles that analyses the role of the media in America from a deconstructionist viewpoint. This collection of original essays is a response to the paradigm shift that has taken place in cultural studies in the wake of postmodernism and poststructuralism. Such concepts as 'truth' or 'reality' have been increasingly called into question, since the realization that our experience of 'the real' is always mediated through an "empire of signs," as Roland Barthes put it. After a predominantly optimistic evaluation of the effects of the media in the 1960s (by Marshall McLuhan, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and others), a growing awareness of the total manipulation of society by mass-media imagery has emerged. The very concept of 'representation' has become problematic, witness the influential essay "The Precession of Simulacra" by the French sociologist Jean Baudrillard, in which he defines simulation as "the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal"- the current boom in 'realityTV' comes to mind. In the seventeen years since the publication of Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation, ever more sophisticated technologies based on the computer as the simulacrum machine par excellence have offered us powerful new means of manipulating data - and consequently, means of manipulating, editing, and inventing 'reality.' The aim of this study is to unmask false 'representations', showing history, personal and cultural identity (especially gender and racial identities), the simulacrum of speed -- and American 'reality' itself -- to be constructs.
Simulacrum
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language : en
Publisher: Circlet Press
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Simulacrum written by and has been published by Circlet Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The Simulacra
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Author : Philip K. Dick
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2011
The Simulacra written by Philip K. Dick and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Fiction categories.
A disparate group of characters are brought together on a ravaged Earth and must contend with an underclass that's starting to ask too many questions.
Simulations
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Author : Jean Baudrillard
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1983
Simulations written by Jean Baudrillard and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Literary Criticism categories.
Baudrillard's bewildering thesis, a bold extrapolation on Ferdinand de Saussure's general theory of general linguistics, is in fact a clinical vision of contemporary consumer societies where signs don't refer anymore to anything except themselves. They all are generated by the matrix. Simulations never existed as a book before it was "translated" into English. Actually it came from two different bookCovers written at different times by Jean Baudrillard. The first part of Simulations, and most provocative because it made a fiction of theory, was "The Procession of Simulacra." It had first been published in Simulacre et Simulations (1981). The second part, written much earlier and in a more academic mode, came from L'Echange Symbolique et la Mort (1977). It was a half-earnest, half-parodical attempt to "historicize" his own conceit by providing it with some kind of genealogy of the three orders of appearance: the Counterfeit attached to the classical period; Production for the industrial era; and Simulation, controlled by the code. It was Baudrillard's version of Foucault's Order of Things and his ironical commentary of the history of truth. The book opens on a quote from Ecclesiastes asserting flatly that "the simulacrum is true." It was certainly true in Baudrillard's book, but otherwise apocryphal.One of the most influential essays of the 20th century, Simulations was put together in 1983 in order to be published as the first little black book of Semiotext(e)'s new Foreign Agents Series. Baudrillard's bewildering thesis, a bold extrapolation on Ferdinand de Saussure's general theory of general linguistics, was in fact a clinical vision of contemporary consumer societies where signs don't refer anymore to anything except themselves. They all are generated by the matrix.In effect Baudrillard's essay (it quickly became a must to read both in the art world and in academe) was upholding the only reality there was in a world that keeps hiding the fact that it has none. Simulacrum is its own pure simulacrum and the simulacrum is true. In his celebrated analysis of Disneyland, Baudrillard demonstrates that its childish imaginary is neither true nor false, it is there to make us believe that the rest of America is real, when in fact America is a Disneyland. It is of the order of the hyper-real and of simulation. Few people at the time realized that Baudrillard's simulacrum itself wasn't a thing, but a "deterrence machine," just like Disneyland, meant to reveal the fact that the real is no longer real and illusion no longer possible. But the more impossible the illusion of reality becomes, the more impossible it is to separate true from false and the real from its artificial resurrection, the more panic-stricken the production of the real is.
Reading Simulacra
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Author : M. W. Smith
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2001-09-06
Reading Simulacra written by M. W. Smith and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-09-06 with Social Science categories.
Traces the ways in which our culture has increasingly become a culture of simulations, and offers strategies for discerning meaning in a world where the difference between what is real and what is simulated has collapsed.
Murakami Haruki
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Author : Michael Seats
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2006
Murakami Haruki written by Michael Seats and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
In his book, Murakami Haruki, Dr. Michael Seats offers an important philosophical intervention in the discussion of the relationship between Murakami's fiction and contemporary Japanese culture. Breaking through conventional analysis, Seats demonstrates how Murakami's first and later trilogies utilize the structure of the simulacrum, a second-order representation, to develop a complex critique of contemporary Japanese culture. By outlining the critical-fictional contours of the 'Murakami Phenomenon, ' the discussion confronts the vexing question of Japanese modernity and subjectivity within the contexts of the national-cultural imaginary. Seats finds mirroring comparisons between Murakami's works and practices in current media-entertainment technologies, indicating a new politics of representation.Murakami Haruki is a critical text for scholars and students of Japanese Studies and Critical Theory, and is an essential guide for those interested in modern Japanese literatur
Phantom Communities
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Author : Scott Durham
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1998
Phantom Communities written by Scott Durham and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Literary Criticism categories.
Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum--sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously defined as a copy that subverts the legitimacy and authority of its model--in light of recent debates in literature, art, philosophy, and cultural studies. The author pursues two interwoven levels of analysis. On one level, he explores the poetics of the simulacrum, considered as a form that internalizes repetition, through close readings of a number of exemplary literary texts, paintings, and films from both the Anglo-American and French traditions, including works by Jean Genet, Pierre Klossowski, René Magritte, Andy Warhol, J. G. Ballard, Balthus, and Raúl Ruiz. Through his readings of these works, the author follows the transformations of the simulacrum, showing how its vicissitudes provide an optic for remapping the postmodern canon. On another level, the author offers an account of the role played by the simulacrum as a theoretical concept that assumes varying analytical and ideological valences in the writings of such theorists as Jean Baudrillard, Fredric Jameson, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze. In so doing, Phantom Communities intervenes in ongoing interdisciplinary debates concerning the historical and ideological limits of postmodernism, as well as the utopian possibilities of art, literature, and philosophy in a postmodern context. Moving between these debates and the interpretation of individual works, the author shows how they converge on the fundamental aesthetic and ideological problem raised by the postmodern culture of the simulacrum: imagining the virtual communities that, at the margins of postmodern culture, are at once figured and eclipsed by its proliferating images.
Oscar Wilde And The Simulacrum
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Author : Giles Whiteley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-05
Oscar Wilde And The Simulacrum written by Giles Whiteley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-05 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Oscar Wilde is more than a name, more than an author. From precocious Oxford undergraduate to cause celebre of the West End of the 1890s, to infamous criminal, the proper name Wilde has become an event in the history of literature and culture. Taking Wilde seriously as a philosopher in his own right, Whiteley's groundbreaking book places his texts into their philosophical context in order to show how Wilde broke from his peers, and in particular from idealism, and challenges recent neo-historicist readings of Wilde which seem content to limit his irruptive power. Using the paradoxical concept of the simulacrum to resituate Wilde's work in relation to both his precursors and his contemporaries, Whiteley's study reads Wilde through Deleuze and postmodern philosophical commentary on the simulacrum. In a series of striking juxtapositions, Whiteley challenges us to rethink both Oscar Wilde's aesthetics and his philosophy, to take seriously both the man and the mask. His philosophy of masks is revealed to figure a truth of a different kind - the simulacra through which Wilde begins to develop and formulate a mature philosophy that constitutes an ethics of joy.
Simulacrum
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Author : Daniel Zaborowski
language : pl
Publisher: Daniel Zaborowski
Release Date :
Simulacrum written by Daniel Zaborowski and has been published by Daniel Zaborowski this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Computers categories.
"Simulacrum: Exploring the Possibility of a Simulated Reality" is a thought-provoking journey into the idea that our reality may be nothing more than a computer-generated simulation. Delving into the scientific, philosophical, and cultural implications of this hypothesis, this book challenges readers to consider the nature of reality, the role of perception and consciousness, and the potential consequences of living in a virtual world. From religious and ethical considerations to depictions in science fiction and the impact of artificial intelligence, each chapter offers a deep exploration of a different facet of the simulated reality hypothesis. With clear and accessible writing, this book provides an engaging and informative introduction to a topic that is increasingly relevant in our technology-driven world.