Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra & Simulation" (Part 2)

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Link to Patreon (for those whom can afford it): / theoryandphilosophy In this episode, I continue my analysis of "Simulacra & Simulation" to expound upon Baudrillard's thoughts of political action, the "code," science fiction, and nihilism.

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00:35 Hypothesis #1 Information produces meaning
00:44 Hypothesis #2 Information has nothing to do with JB's signs
00:59 Hypothesis #3 Information kills signs AND meaning
01:32 Obscenity - implosion or explosion of meaning (absurdism/surrealism)
03:45 information is communication
4:55 - 6:15 Escape Velocity - infinity mirror, info eats info. It then becomes meaningless, caught up in an explosion of exposition.
10:13 The medium IS the message
15:34 - if meaning is given to everything, it will cease to HAVE meaning. If we are all beautiful, beauty is then normal looking.
19:09 - Social Media "influencer" the medium IS the message, the consumer IS the advertiser
24:12 The Double
31:13 Cancer/AIDS/COVID? and "The CODE"
38:31 A cat enters the fray.
38:43 the 3 orders of Simulacra - - - - #1 the counterfeit - (a painting)#2 Production (energy/force- the machine THE REAL) #3 the CODE - - - hyper reality (the matrix) 40:35
41:04 Sci Fi
44:44 animals & racism
50:30 Animals have a territory with in the environment, BUT humans have to simulate an environment to live in the territory.
51:51 the left
52:58 nihilism
57:09 Seduction
"theft maybe a way to bypass the simulation/copy concept, to steal is to take something and make it yours ....." dan tha man.

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I love this channel

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I very much appreciate your summaries and you digressions...!

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Information works a little like money, the more of it in circulation - the weaker it becomes.
Information is in a hyper inflationary state, and as such loses all buoyancy

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again, thx doode.