Hyperreality and Simulation as Elements of the Media’s.
Jean Baudrillard Introducing the idea of the simulation, Baudrillard says that we have come to a placewhere the false precedes the real. In addition to discovering that the simulation no longer matches the real, Baudrillard says it has gone farther, reducing everything down to miniature and making it hyperreal, something that exists in and of itself, with little to connect it to the original.Two Essays. There are three orders of simulacra: (1) natural, naturalistic simulacra: based on image, imitation, and counterfeiting. They are harmonious, optimistic, and aim at the reconstitution, or the ideal institution, of a nature in God's image.His 1981 treatise, ' Simulacra and Simulation ', analyzes the role of the 'simulacra' and 'simulation' in our society, examining the influence of symbols, signs and images on our perception of reality.
In his essay, “The Precession of Simulacra” (1994) Jean Baudrillard illustrates the increasing indistinguishability between “reality” and what he calls “simulation” by means of a thought experiment.In his book Simulacra and Simulation (1994), Jean Baudrillard explains four different phases that a representation takes to then become a simulation, which I will relate to Instagram. A photograph becoming a simulation is a process that could be argued, happens throughout the four phases.
Simulacra and Simulation is very wordy and obtuse, but holds some really interesting ideas about culture and society as a whole. A quick way to explain the topic of the book is by looking at The Matrix (which actually featured this book in one scene and used many of Baudrillards ideas as a basis for its story).
