Simulacra

An explanation of what Jean Baudrillard meant by the term "simulacrum."

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Education

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• theory
• literary
• simulacra
• simulacrum
• Baudrillard

[mandellc]

I don't think that's what he is saying: I think a simulacrum is specifically any representation that claims to be imitating something, but there is nothing that precedes it that it does imitate.

[mandellc]

Are the different forms you speak of in your first comment "forms of simulacra" or "forms of representation," simulation / simulacra being only one kind?

[mandellc]

That's fascinating: I looked through the medium (painted marks) as if at a reality (truth statement), just the way one might look at a painting of a Pipe and imagine it to be referring to a pipe. Am I getting your point? (anyone can answer.) Thanks.

[karentsang]

The narrator sounds very subdued... like she's had some MJ.

[mandellc]

No, no MJ, I just enjoy the deadpan . . . .

[ChazZeromus]

This can be simplified as an concept based on the types and restrictions on the domains of a symbol. If you consume that symbols are conveniently higher representations of other symbols which are closer reality, hyper real symbolisms have no origin of fidelity, because they are abstracted as objects that do not exist in the universe but display characteristics conceivable to assume existence.

[MotherPalace]

talk slower.

[ismaelcavazos]

Some people use the words 'simulacra' and 'pareidolia' interchangeably. Are they the same?

[jethro8875]

Good starter video, but fails to identify the different orders of simulacrum.

[grandmasterqz]

does baudrillard mean to say that anything that is first conceived in the mind, represented onto a paper and then built in reality is a simulacra, as long as it hasn't been created to imitate anything that came before it?

[SaiyanHajime]

Who do you mention at 1:29? Thanks for the video in plain English.

[weber59]

Thank you.

Thank you so much for this video, I am writing an art paper about simulacrum, and text books and definitions were killing me.

Thank you for not speaking through a PhD

[langengro]

Another question, even though just terminological: The Disneyland castle and the phantasy mansion are simulacra, while the Las Vegas copy of the Eiffel tower or the Cincinnati map are not. So Baudrillard should use an antonym for "simulacrum", and also a term for the common genus of all this stuff. Not that I want others to Google such things for me, but from what I find (or don't find) it seems like Baudrillard sees no need for this terminology since he believes in the ubiquity of simulacra.