While I agree that much of Postmodernism is bullshit
<http://sacquorum.com/stand-alone-complex-and-the-simulacrum/>, the ideas
of Simulacra and Simulation and provide a framework of understanding
certain social phenomena, albeit in a context that some may find
inaccessible. However, it's certainly not something that you have not seen
or heard of before.
http://sacquorum.com/stand-alone-complex-and-the-simulacrum/
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 5:01 PM, Nicholas Robertson-Muir <nicmuir@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Too much pseudo-intellectual bullshit here.
I read it, understood it (as much as I coukd) and judged it as this.
Feel free to sink my battleship.
I'll bring the capture setup tomorrow at 13:30 or so.
On 28 Aug 2015 15:54, "lindsey kiviets" <lindseyak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
lets fyt.
sf5 les go
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:47:02 +0200
Subject: Re: Hello
From: ilitirit@xxxxxxxxx
To: cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
I couldn't have expressed it better LB.
Your language exists in a realm of it's own. Paradoxically disconnected
from reality its existence creates its own hyperreality. And in this
hyperreality, it's ceases to be a simulation of English. The English
language is relegated to history; a forgotten relic of a literate age.
All that remains is LBlish ("Elblish").
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 3:39 PM, lindsey kiviets <lindseyak@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
wtf tsek with ur simulkuk
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:32:43 +0200
Subject: Re: Hello
From: ilitirit@xxxxxxxxx
To: cpt-fgc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Baudrillard was right. The social facade I was lamenting about earlier
appears to be the precession of simulacra.
Baudrillard claims that our current society
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society> has replaced all reality and
meaning with symbols <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol> and signs,
and that human experience is of a simulation of reality. 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 relevant to our
current understanding of our lives. The simulacra that Baudrillard refers
to are the significations and symbolism of culture
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture> and media that construct
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructivism> 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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
