The Baudrillard Series #1: Wake Up

[chasedbyfaun]

Cool colours. Brown and green go together very well.

[DJAR1E]

"O, hoi polloi's 'reality' is merely an illusion. There's still some reality behind it though, and only from THAT perspective can you sort out all the rest!"

- Plato / the germ of the Matrix

"Icons/models/signs, which are obviously not real, are vital to life and knowledge in our age. If you look behind them for the 'real', you will only find more 'illusions'. There's no passive or dialectical escape from a system that encourages both."

- Baudrillard

Google "Baudrillard The Matrix Decoded".

[seaofclay]

VERY  GOOD!!!

[toostonedtocare]

'We think we know what is real but we don't!' Hey.. I keep writing letters too! Well done! ;-)

[2gobeond]

There is no real, reality is in the eye of the beholder. The matrix is a distopia wrapped in a desire for the human to transend to the cybernetic but lament its transition.

[CirrusFalcon]

Brilliant, strawpurchasex. Tropic Thunder is the exemplary hyperreality--perhaps to the second degree.

[Rockedellic]

no thats not true .... neo takes a book of simulation and simulacra (and the first minutes of the movie) where his datas are stored inside the book... thats a very strong massage

[CirrusFalcon]

I believe it is true. Baudrillard himself said the Matrix was a gross misinterpretation of his ideas.

[sottovoce12007]

People don't care to understand this matrix in which we exist. They only want comfort food. If our current political situation has not been a wake up call, I guess the Chinese may soon walk into our homes and take possesion because the water system and soil the house sits on has been sold by Walmart.

[sigmund000]

you are making baudrillard seem like some crazy subjective idealist, he is not. Tastes are not illusions according to Baudrillard. Furthermore 'illusion' needs to be defined not as a perceptual quality but rather as the gapless divide between the copy -as-real and the real-as-'dialectical'--- from a hegelian point of view

[hloosn8pgs]

I have no idea what I'm talking about. It's all pretty much serious entertainment. I like the phrase "gapless divide between the copy-as-real and the real-as-dialectical" but I can't say my senses make much sense of it. I'm trying. Isn't "gapless divide" sort of oxymoronic? At least in terms of language? Maybe I'll change the series now to the Derrida Series. Allows more room for contradiction.

[Coalza]

@sigmund000 i like smokein pot

[paulcrisostimo]

the matrix is a pure simulacrum because it makes to reference to the "real world." The map precedes the land as it is in the Borges fable.

[NihilAdmirari]

Did you know Baudrillard said that _The Matrix_ is exactly the movie The Matrix will make?

[Acumensch]

everything is sign. pure sign.

[blackfrogger007]

Few of us are actually 'unplugged'..

I speak in metaphor (the metaphor of the Matrix), but I think that on a very basic level we do live in a Matrix.

...well, I won't try to explain it, as you obviously seem to know what I'd say: a repetition of Baudrillard's thoughts.

[daviddosborn]

Thank you for this, great subjects and presentation.