[personlurking]

For anyone not familiar with French philosopher Jean Baudrillard, I recommend reading up on his ideas around 'posed reality', as it were.

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"Simulacra are copies that depict things that either had no original to begin with, or that no longer have an original.

Baudrillard believed that society has become so saturated with these simulacra and our lives so saturated with the constructs of society that all meaning was being rendered meaningless by being infinitely mutable."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard

[icebraining]

"All that once was directly lived has become mere representation."

"Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Society_of_the_Spectacle

[chillwaves]

Can watch a rework here (I liked it).

https://vimeo.com/60328678

[AndrewKemendo]

Thanks for that. Very much a rabbit hole for Situationism which I had only ever barely interacted with when I was more active in Anarchist philosophy.

[personlurking]

Interesting. The next book on my shelf to read is "Civilization of the Spectacle" by Mario Vargas Llosa.

http://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2013/january/la-civiliza...

[icebraining]

The similarity is probably not a coincidence; Debord's book is the most significant text of the Situationist movement, which was quite influential in the New Left, particularly in the 60s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International

[HeroOfAges]

I remember being exposed to that novel for the first time as a young man while watching The Matrix. Neo was hiding a data disk in a hollowed out copy of the book on his bookshelf. The ideas were far beyond what I could relate to or understand as a 22 year old. I doubt I still have the old paperback I ordered from Amazon, but I intend to track down a copy and have another go at it.

[SuperPaintMan]

Recent cultural developments are showing a shift away from this infinitely malleable meaning and unique definition (towards a shared consensus definitions that can be used for communication.

See Metamodernism and present day echo chambers.