Simulacra and Simulation
Saturday, November 15th, 2003 10:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robinturnerHaving ploughed through a fair amount by and about Baudrillard as preparation for my Matrix course, I was tickled by this text produced by running Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation through a language-generating program:
"The slightest details of our behaviour are ruled by neutralised, indifferent, equivalent signs, by zero-sum signs like those which currently results in an excess of meaning, no more exists outside than inside the bounds of the social. That is the worst form of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to say in the statistic operation, or with the democratic simulacrum, that is to say something else entirely: a wizardry of work, a trompe l'oeil, a scenodrama (not to say something else) took place."
As the person who performed this operation points out, the theme of the original work is how simulation becomes indistinguishable from reality.
"The slightest details of our behaviour are ruled by neutralised, indifferent, equivalent signs, by zero-sum signs like those which currently results in an excess of meaning, no more exists outside than inside the bounds of the social. That is the worst form of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to say in the statistic operation, or with the democratic simulacrum, that is to say something else entirely: a wizardry of work, a trompe l'oeil, a scenodrama (not to say something else) took place."
As the person who performed this operation points out, the theme of the original work is how simulation becomes indistinguishable from reality.
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Date: 2003-11-17 09:39 am (UTC)