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If you have to consciously modify habits to live in a "real" lifestyle, then that's a simulacrum. His definition of "real" is not "it exists". For example, Baudrillard talks about the fact that the second a primitive society is discovered and efforts are made to ensure they are undisturbed and stay stuck in their primitive culture, that culture is now simulacral. (From SAS: "Of course, these savages are posthumous: frozen, cryogenized, sterilized, protected to death, they have become referential simulacra, and science itself has become pure simulation.") >someone writes in a book that it does it doesn’t change that the ways real people actually live their lives are, ipso facto, real lifestyles that exist, it just means the book is wrong I'm not making normative statements about your lifestyle, I'm clarifying terminology that's very very specific to the book Simulacra and Simulation, written by Baudrillard, which is what this post is about. If you want to use a different meaning for simulacrum than Baudrillard's, then that's fine, but it would be helpful to define it. |