Baudrillard

Question 1

Capacity of images

Answer 1

“Thus perhaps at stake has always been the murderous capacity of images, murderers of the real, murderers of their own model”

Question 2

Successive phases of the image

Answer 2

Reflects a basic reality
Masks and perverts a basic reality
Masks the absence of a basic reality
Bears no relation to any reality whatsoever

Question 3

Tasaday analogy

Answer 3

Behaviour of tribe altered once they began to be studied; became less natural. Knowledge always alters the object of study. Were returned in a panic by the authorities; science must maintain illusion of natural world to protect its reality principle: nothing really exists outside itself. Nature has been completely replaced by culture; by making everything known, the natural world is an illusion, a simulacrum that bears no relation to reality.

Question 4

When You Live Your Whole Life In A Prison Freedom Can Be So Dull

Answer 4

“Just as prisons are there to conceal the fact that it is the social in its entirety, in its banal omnipresence, which is carceral”

Question 5

Why we desperately seek affirmation of our reality eg reality TV shoes, celebrity sex tapes. We fetishise authenticity and create blatantly imaginary spaces because it helps us imagine the rest of our lives are real

Answer 5

“When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. There is a proliferation of myths of origin and signs of reality; of second-hand truth, objectivity and authenticity”

Question 6

Disneyland

Answer 6

“It is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real…[LA and all of America] are no longer real, but of the order of the hyperreal and of simulation”

“It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality, but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle”