Cathy Lee

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Group 4

• Cathy Lee
• Chris Chang
• Daphne Chia
• Edison Yen

Janine Fang Joby Huang Joe Wang Tony Wang
Jean Baudrillards Simulacra and Simulation
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Jean Baudrillard

• The simulacrum is never that which conceals the
  truth--it is the truth which conceals that there
  is none. The simulacrum is true
• Jorge Luis Borges the map and the desert of the
  real
• Precession of simulacra simulation is no
  longer that of a territory, a referential being
  or a substance. It is the generation by models of
  a real without origin or reality a hyperreal

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Orders of Simulacra

1. Symbolic Order Society as a fixed system of
   signs distributed according to rank and
   obligation
2. First Order of Simulacra The Early Modern
   period, from the Renaissance to the Industrial
   Revolution. Simulacra aim to restore an ideal
   image of nature, true originals underlie the
   fakes.
3. Second Order of Simulacra From the Industrial
   Revolution to the middle of the 20th century.
   Mass production of copies or replicas of a single
   prototype appear, just as real as the prototype
4. Third Order of Simulacra The present age -
   dominated by simulations, things that have no
   original or prototype. Death of the real no more
   counterfeits or prototypes, just simulations of
   reality - hyperreality.

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Phases of the Images

1. Art reflects a basic reality
2. Art masks and perverts a basic reality the sign
   becomes an unfaithful copy
3. Art masks the absence of a basic reality the
   simulacrum pretends to be a faithful copy, but
   has no original
4. Art bears no relation to reality at all it is
   pure simulation

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Age of Simulation

• The substitution of signs of the real for the
  real itself
• Deters every real process by its operational
  double, a metastable with all the signs and
  functions of the real the real no longer needs
  to be produced
• What remains is the orbital recurrence of models
  and simulated generation of difference

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The Hyperreal

• The real is produced from miniature units
  (matrices, memory banks, command models) and
  can thus be reproduced endlessly
• The real no longer has to be rational it is
  operational and since it is not enveloped by an
  imaginary, it is no longer real at all
• Hyperreal the product of an irradiating
  synthesis of combinatory models in a hyperspace
  without atmosphere

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Disneyland as Hyperreality

• Based on reality
• Reproduced endlessly
• Reality ? real
• Disneyland hyperreality

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Example Bambi

• a spotted deer

Bambi
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Other examples of simulacra

• Literature
• - Ovids Metamorphosis ? Galatée (ivory statue)
• - Mary Shelleys Frankenstein ? the monster
• - Magazines ? photo of models touched up by
  computer
• Film
• - Jurassic Park ? dinosaurs
• - Superman ? super-powered hero
• - 300 ? entire film shot in front of a blue
  screen
• TV
• - Reality shows ? world of fantasy that viewers
  tend to engage to

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Works Cited

• http//cocadoodledoo.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/d
  isneyland-paris_1195132957.jpg
• http//www.yuwen789.com/book/reading/UploadFiles_2
  021/200705/200753014844157.jpg
• http//disney-lyrics.us/bambi/
• http//big5.am765.com/zt1/ztfl/jlzt/eccjhsyzsx/lhz
  xbbcj/200811/W020081104497913756735.bmp

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Group 4

• Cathy Lee
• Chris Chang
• Daphne Chia
• Edison Yen

Janine Fang Joby Huang Joe Wang Tony Wang
Thank you for your attention