Signs and images claim to represent something real, but no representation is taking place and arbitrary images are merely suggested as things which they have no relationship to. ‘Simulacra and Simulation’ breaks the sign-order into 4 stages:ġ) Faithful image/copy, where we believe, and it may even be correct, that a sign is a ‘reflection of a profound reality,’ this is a good appearance, in what Baudrillard called ‘he sacramental order.’Ģ) Perversion of reality, this is where we come to believe the sign to be an unfaithful copy, which ‘masks and denatures’ reality as an ‘evil appearance – it is of the order of maleficence.’ Here, signs and images do not faithfully reveal reality to us, but can hint at the existence of an obscure reality which the sign itself is incapable of encapsulating.ģ) Absence of a profound reality, where the simulacrum pretends to be a faithful copy, but it is a copy with no original. Baudrillard called this phenomenon the ‘precession of simulacra.’ The simulacra that Baudrillard refers to are the significations and symbolism of culture and media that construct perceived reality, the acquired understanding by which our lives and shared existence is and are rendered legible Baudrillard believed that society has become so saturated with these simulacra and our lives so saturated with the constructs of society that all meaning was being rendered meaningless by being infinitely mutable. Moreover, these simulacra are not merely mediations of reality, nor even deceptive mediations of reality they are not based in a reality nor do they hide a reality, they simply hide that anything like reality is irrelevant to our current understanding of our lives. Baudrillard claims that our current society has replaced all reality and meaning with symbols and signs, and that human experience is of a simulation of reality. ‘ Simulacra and Simulation‘ is a philosophical treatise by French sociologist Jean Baudrillard seeking to interrogate the relationship among reality, symbols, and society. A simulacrum (singular form of simulacra) in an imperfect simulation (a recreation of something).
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