Profound reality is a weird term that is doing several distinct things.
#Ben simulacra 2 full#
The closest thing he gives to a compact full definition is this: This deals with the dueling definition problem so it doesn’t get in the way down the line, and I hope it helps explain why higher level activity systematically has such strange and hostile relationships to physical reality (and what Baudillard calls ‘profound’ reality.) Different Definitions of Simulacra LevelsĪn additional confusion is that there are now multiple competing definitions, which seem superficially to point at different things, although I claim that both definitions are fully compatible once properly understood.įirst, there are simulacra levels as defined in Baudrillard. The goal of this post is to reconcile Baudillard’s definition with the Lion definition used in my previous posts, integrating the relation of a simulacra to reality with the motivational explanatory framework. Beyond that, I’m tossing essentially everything else away. This is a case where I strongly endorse taking the concepts that are useful and leaving the remaining giant mess behind.īaudrillard’s definition will be kept. I find many others to be downright absurd, or to be carrying water for the agendas of History’s Greatest Villains. The idea that capitalism isn’t the cause of all the world’s problems (never mind whether it’s the solution) does not seem to parse in his mind. I find many others to be based on models and frameworks very different from my own, and that are assumed rather than specified in the text. Upon parsing many of his super-dense sentences, I find many of them to be outright false. He blames these for the rise of simulacra, whereas they are the primary forces opposed to simulacra. He is opposed for nonsensical reasons not only to the concept of capitalism, but the concepts of money, value and trade, and even urbanization and mass production. The more I read Jean Baudrillard ‘s further assertions, the less they seem deserving of engagement.
Thus, I’m still working through the book. It’s not clear that a proper review would be shorter than the book itself. It requires the reader to pause after every sentence. The original source of the term is a super-dense work of French philosophy. The term was first referenced locally by Ben Hoffman in this post, but this was not the original source. The text that coined the term Simulacra levels does not help matters. Simulacra levels are a map of the metaphors we use to create metaphoric maps of both territory and the map itself. Simulacra levels are difficult to understand. It should be readable on its own, but easier having read the previous post. This is intended to both be a stand-alone post and to be the second post in the Simulacra sequence, with the first being Simulacra Levels and their Interactions. STEELERS is a registered trademark of the Pittsburgh Steelers LLC.Epistemic Status: Confident this is the perspective I find most useful.
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