Baudrillard's Theory of Simulacra, simulation, postmodernism and hyperreality Flashcards

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What does Hyperreality mean?

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A state where we cannot tell the difference between reality and the simulacra.

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What does Simulacra mean?

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Something that replaces reality with its representation.

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What does Baudrillard argue?

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Media products evolve and society ‘wants more’
We have media products - news for example that is a heightened (more intense) version of reality perhaps.

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Simulacra and Simulations:

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The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth–it is the truth which conceals that there is none.
The simulacrum is true.

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When was Postmodernism?

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After Modernism.

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What is Modernism?

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A style or movement in the arts that aims to depart significantly from classical and traditional forms.

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What is A Bureaucratic State?

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A strict government characterised by an adherence to fixed rules and a hierarchy of authority.

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Difference between Modern and Post modern age:

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Modern age:

  • Mass production
  • Community life
  • Social class
  • Family
  • A belief in continuity and situation
  • A role of education
  • A one-way media
  • Overt social control
  • Nationhood
  • Science aided progress and finding the truth
  • Structure/security/place/stability
  • YOU KNEW WHO YOU WERE

Post modern age:

  • Mass consumption
  • Fragmentation (individualism)
  • Identity from other sources
  • Families (many options)
  • Breakage with the past/tradition
  • Education for what?
  • Duality of media (choice/interchange)
  • Covert control (CCTV etc)
  • Global
  • Science is only one source of knowledge – plurality of truths now
  • Confusion/lack of structure/
    incessant choice
  • YOU CREATE WHO YOU WANT TO BE
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How is Post Modernism present in Media?

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  1. Media has saturated our lives.
  2. The media becomes a mixture of styles, old, new, intertextual – referencing other media, a melting pot of different styles.
  3. Media has become global. We have lost a sense of identity, space, time.
  4. There is no truth, we accept certain things make no sense!
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What does Intertextuality mean?

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A mixture of styles, old, new.

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What does Intertextual referencing mean?

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Other media, a melting pot of different styles.

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