Jean Baudrillard: He was a French sociologist, who lived between 27th July 1929-6th March 2007 and the majority of his work is based on the theory of postmodernism in the 1980's.
Jean Baudrillard invented the terms simulacra and simulation. Simulacra is the condition of involving a negation of the concept of reality, as for when he uses the word, simulacra he often uses it to address how their is no such thing as reality. Whereas Baudrillard claims that simulation is the current stage of the simulacrum. All is composed is composed of references with no referents, a hyperreality. Progressing gradually through the period of the Renaissance in which the dominant simulacrum was in the form of the counterfeit, as mostly objects or even people appearing to stand for royalty etc. In the present tense, in dissumiliating others that a person or a things doesn't really have it. Such as in the industrial period, the dominant simulacrum is the product, the product or commodity which can be maufactured on a endless production line and to current times the current simulacrum model is which by its nature already stands for endless reproducibility and itself is already produced.Baudrillard references the development of nuclear weapons as a deterrent, as this is only useful in the hyperreal sense, since they are always meant to be reproducible but never intended to be used. Second the twin towers is a reproduction, a singular model for all concievable model for all conceivable development. Thirdly, a manage a trois with identical twins where the fantasy comprises having perfection produced in front of your eyes, through the reality behind the reproduction isn't real and impossible to comprehend. Baudrillard those insists that in the tactical sense, we already assume the reproducablility of everything since it isn't the reality of the simulations we imagine. We do not imagine them repreoduced for us since the original image of the self is a reproduction but we percieve the model as a simulation.
Here is a link I found on simulation and simulacra:
The Importance of simulacra and simulation:
They are important as they present to people, a world were we aren't able to grasp our own reality and the theory points to the concept of whether we are trapped in a simulated version of life. These terms are used by various theorists to question our reality and the state of it. According to Baudrillard simulations are produced in order to hide the fact their is no real or original copy of that product. He states how we are removed from the binary, which sets up copies of the original and there is only copies andcopies of the original. He also states that imitation can precede the original, which results in a world without depth, a place where reality is only an endless interplay of surfaces. Baurillards attempt is not to expose the falseness of the simulated reality but to lament the passing of the actual real and he finds the world of images and signs to be oppressive.
Quotes: “We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.”
“We will live in this world, which for us has all the disquieting strangeness of the desert and of the simulacrum, with all the veracity of living phantoms, of wandering and simulating animals that capital, that the death of capital has made of us—because the desert of cities is equal to the desert of sand—the jungle of signs is equal to that of the forests—the vertigo of simulacra is equal to that of nature—only the vertiginous seduction of a dying system remains, in which work buries work, in which value buries value—leaving a virgin, sacred space without pathways, continuous as Bataille wished it, where only the wind lifts the sand, where only the wind watches over the sand.”
"The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true."
Cricisms:Merrin argues Baudrillards work places him against himself. He argues Baudrillards position on semitoic analysis of meaning defines himself as in his own position on political change and some theorists have be known to reject his theory. Ignores contradictive evidence as he rejects mediums etc. Even if truths existence is taken for granted as Baudrillards doesn't portray convincively how meaning can be overpowering. Baudrillard also fails to offer a means of fighting the collapse of reason. The theory of postmodernism contradicts itself as it tries to disapprove the existence of all theories as in its own right it is a theory.The present age can be characterized as that of an hyperreality, where the real objects have been effaced or superseded by their signs of existence. Baudrillards theory of simulation and simulacrums can be criticized as in his work,Baudrillard attempts to push his theories of society beyond themselves.
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