The first order of simulacra is that known to not be real, the viewer never confuses it for being real, such as a landscape painting during the renaissance period. He proposed orders for transition from real to hyperreal. That the real and the fiction blend together so seamlessly that one can't tell where one ends and the other begins. Hyperreality is the inability of consciousness to distinguish what's real from what's not. Baudrillard argued that simulacrum was not just a copy, but becomes an original thing in its own right, as a hyperreal. Think of something like a recreation of a sculpture in a museum somewhere. Simulacra can also be a faithful reproduction or an attempt to perfectly copy the original, whether it's an image or an object or something else. So you're partially right, but simulacrum doesn't necessarily mean an intentional distortion of the original. So if you deeply believe that clothing only indicates status, does your truth hide the actual truth that it is meant to keep you warm? The part that confuses me is: "it is the truth that hides the fact that there is none." What exactly does this mean? That the truth hides that fact that there is no simulacrum, so the original meaning hides the fact that there is a new meaning? Like if you only look at clothing as a tool to keep you warm, does this truth hide the truth that clothing can indicate status? Or is it saying that the truth hides the fact that there is no truth? So what someone believes to be true, might not actually be true. The new meaning wasn't created to obscure the original meaning. So in relation to the quote, the simulacrum doesn't hide the truth - the fact that there is an object that has come to mean something different than originally intended, doesn't hide the fact that the object originally existed with a different purpose. So clothing that is purchased for its social value as a display of wealth or class, rather than a practical purpose (to protect you and keep you warm) could be an example of a simulacra because the consumer of the object has completely lost sight of the original purpose of the object. Simulacrum is composed of symbols that have lost their original meaning. The simulacrum is true." - Jean Baudrillard/EcclesiastesĬan someone help me understand this quote? I think I understand the basic concepts of simulacra and simulation, but please correct me if I'm wrong. "The simulacrum is never that which hides the truth - it is truth that hides the fact that there is none.
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