Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra & Simulation" (Part 1)
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Link to Patreon: / theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I delve into Baudrillard's most famous work, "Simulacra & Simulation." In this episode, I do my best to clarify some misconceptions that I often encounter regarding what Baudrillard is doing in this text. Some of these include the explicit relationship between simulation and the media, the divide between reality and simulation, and Baudrillard's thoughts of "real" suffering.
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04:10 the 3 types of reality
5:29 2nd order simulacra
6:15 the Hyper-Real
15:15 the Disney Land Theory
24:45 the balance of terror is the terror of balance.
30:28 Cinema killed History
32:13 Don't downplay the effects of JB's symbols
36:46 The CODE
37:58 The Paper Cut
38:38 Money and Wealth have lost meaning, now Millionaire's just collect zeroes.
Thanks this was very helpful
Your intelligence is a rare gift. Thank you! I started reading the book and realized I had zero reference, other than the Matrix, and I was having difficulty visualizing the material. Then I found this video and you lay out the playing field so beautifully that reading is infinitely more enjoyable.
Subscribing to and recommending!
So psychosis is simulacre par exellance?
Great video, keep up the good work
Great work! Thank you!
Superb and illuminating analysis
Oh man. Thank you so much. I've been researching this subject for months and your presentation is awesome. Hope if you can work on improving the quality of the sound. You can buy a cheap recorder, I suggest "zoom h1". Please keep up the good work
Haha ya I think I figured out my sound quality problem. I won't mention what it was specifically, because it will make me appear incredibly dumb.
Just started this. Boy first 10 pages were challenging to grasp. Some of it i think I got but I’m excited to get through it
Im definitely slowly drowning in this kind of simulation.
Very much like that idea that objects are kept to validate their presence or survival into the current. Im going to be mulling over that for a while now.. it reminds of that idea that we replay or setup problems for ourselves that we constantly face., maybe to validate that we (as individuals) exist in some concrete way. To let go of the need of a concrete self would we also let go of the need to surround ourselves with its evidence? Thank you for sharing these incredible texts. Much aplreciation
Did the Matrix sequels correct the issues of the first?
15:15 I want to move to Disneyland since I was a kid- like I belong there or something
where would you recommend starting with baudrillard?
That is a tricky one. I would recommend starting with "America." Then, "The Transparency of Evil," then "The Mirror of Production," then "Seduction," then "simulacra," then "symbolic exchange," then "for a critique," then "the perfect crime," then read them all again because they make no sense lol
@@TheoryPhilosophy thanks :)
Is it me or did you remove this series from Spotify?
It was never on there I don't think. I was uploading the wrong file type. Look in the description and you'll find a link to podbean for the podcast episode there :)
99 out of 100 intellectuals would've rode the popularity of the Matrix. Not Baudrillard. Which showed that Baudrillard rather than being some intellectual clown, as his detractors would have it, was a man of enormous integrity. Still a Marxist at heart.
And naturally he was right about the film. The Matrix was a crude approximation of his ideas. The gnostic Neo-Platonism was the weakest part of the trilogy and had nothing to do with S&S
'Embarrassing no less. Pretentious and pseudo intellectual. Sure it made 100s of millions. but Baudrillard was obviously unimpressed by either money or adulation.
Oh for sure.
The first film didnt adhere to the principles in the book, but in the sequels it is revealed that the prophecy is another form of control. The "real world" in the Matrix reacts to this false narrative as if it were true, confining them to a hyper-reality while never truly experiencing the freedom they believe they have.
Baudrillard moved beyond Marxism because he didn't agree with the focus on production
@@kellyrankin8844 By the end, Baudrillard had moved beyond ideology. Just seeing everything as a battle between hyper reality, and reality.
Get the feeling Baudrillard just saw one way out of our current stasis, and that was the total destruction of
mass media.
It wasn't so much that Baudrillard had moved beyond Marxism, the simulacrum had moved beyond ideology. All ideology. All what was left was the simulation of ideology.
@@JAMAICADOCK I think that he did move beyond it because he felt it ultimately served the same masters and produced the same problems albeit with some improvements. If you wanted to say he was more sympathetic to Marxism than Capitalism, I'd probably agree, but I still think he ultimately rejected it. I'm happy to hear more thoughts on the subject, though.
Wonder what Beaudrillard would think about Trump, social media and the proliferation of Hollywood remakes, prequels and sequels 🤔 #peaksimulacra
Find his essay, "Conjuration of Imbeciles"
what
Lol
The Matrix brought me here…
TL:DR everything is now "pretend", fake, and just a reference to the real
I'd want to nuance that by asking you, what is the real?
Well not so much real, but it is certainly second order referentially
Maybe not so much real but second order knowledge?
@@opinionatedrobot2750 Indeed!
@@ericthegreat7805 But what is that?????
ROFL all Bible qoutes are simulated. A simulated thing pretends to be something it's not,..