Jean Baudrillard's 'Simulacra & Simulation' (Part 1)

[the_audiofiles]

04:10 the 3 types of reality
5:29 2nd order simulacra
6:15 the Hyper-Real
15:15 the Disney Land Theory
24:45 the balance of terror is the terror of balance.
30:28 Cinema killed History
32:13 Don't downplay the effects of JB's symbols
36:46 The CODE
37:58 The Paper Cut
38:38 Money and Wealth have lost meaning, now Millionaire's just collect zeroes.

[denislyons]

Your intelligence is a rare gift. Thank you! I started reading the book and realized I had zero reference, other than the Matrix, and I was having difficulty visualizing the material. Then I found this video and you lay out the playing field so beautifully that reading is infinitely more enjoyable.
Subscribing to and recommending!

[dixztube]

Just started this. Boy first 10 pages were challenging to grasp. Some of it i think I got but I’m excited to get through it

[SharperPenImageConsulting]

Right. McLuhan said “the message is YOU.” Baudrillard must have missed that, but it matches what he says: “YOU see the effects of the medium everywhere, and the world is enmeshed in it.” The content is merely incidental.

[sultanaljuhani]

Oh man. Thank you so much. I've been researching this subject for months and your presentation is awesome. Hope if you can work on improving the quality of the sound. You can buy a cheap recorder, I suggest "zoom h1". Please keep up the good work

[kostaborojevic]

So psychosis is simulacre par exellance?

[kostaborojevic]

Im definitely slowly drowning in this kind of simulation.

[Overprotected]

15:15 I want to move to Disneyland since I was a kid- like I belong there or something

[jaycobyart]

Very much like that idea that objects are kept to validate their presence or survival into the current. Im going to be mulling over that for a while now.. it reminds of that idea that we replay or setup problems for ourselves that we constantly face., maybe to validate that we (as individuals) exist in some concrete way. To let go of the need of a concrete self would we also let go of the need to surround ourselves with its evidence? Thank you for sharing these incredible texts. Much aplreciation

[JAMAICADOCK]

99 out of 100 intellectuals would've rode the popularity of the Matrix. Not Baudrillard. Which showed that Baudrillard rather than being some intellectual clown, as his detractors would have it, was a man of enormous integrity. Still a Marxist at heart.

And naturally he was right about the film. The Matrix was a crude approximation of his ideas. The gnostic Neo-Platonism was the weakest part of the trilogy and had nothing to do with S&S

'Embarrassing no less. Pretentious and pseudo intellectual. Sure it made 100s of millions. but Baudrillard was obviously unimpressed by either money or adulation.

[ashamazon]

Did the Matrix sequels correct the issues of the first?

[ericthegreat]

Wonder what Beaudrillard would think about Trump, social media and the proliferation of Hollywood remakes, prequels and sequels 🤔 #peaksimulacra

[yuriythebest]

TL:DR everything is now "pretend", fake, and just a reference to the real

[nishantthakur]

Is it me or did you remove this series from Spotify?

[johnferry]

We’re there any French philosophers that didn’t smoke?

[JoelLopez-dhcn]

ROFL all Bible qoutes are simulated. A simulated thing pretends to be something it's not, ..