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23 Jan 09

Jean Baudrillard in London

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30 Nov 08

Simulacra and Simulations: Jean Baudrillard verklaard! (_Selina)

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echtheid en werkelijkheid van beelden die wij denken te kennen
De term ‘simulacrum’ is terug te vinden in de filosofie van Plato en betekent oorspronkelijk een ‘valse kopie van de werkelijkheid’
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- verzamelwoord voor begrippen als ‘teken’, ‘afbeelding’ of ‘concept’
- kopie van de werkelijkheid dat – uiteindelijk – alle relatie met de (door haar nagebootste) werkelijkheid zal verliezen
- simulatie vooraf gaat aan de werkelijkheid; dit noemt hij de “precessie van de simulacra”, de cumulatieve vervanging van het echte door een gesimuleerde representatie of verbeelding
- vier fasen in de ontwikkeling van het beeld
- 1. Het beeld is de weerspiegeling van een fundamentele realiteit.
  
  2. Het beeld maskeert en perverteert een fundamentele realiteit.
  
  3. Het beeld maskeert de afwezigheid van een fundamentele realiteit.
  
  4. Het beeld heeft geen relatie met wat voor realiteit dan ook. Het is een zuiver
  
  simulacrum van zichzelf.

Jean Baudrillard - SIMULACRA AND SIMULATIONS - 1998

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21 Jul 08

Boekbespreking "De fatale strategieën", J. Baudrillard

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Trouw Boekrecensies - Baudrillard, Fatale Strategieën

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10 May 08

Postmodern Thought

a large collection of links concerning postmodernism and its thinkers

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09 May 08

Mary Klages about Postmodernism

YAIP - yet another introduction to postmodernism

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General Introduction to Postmodernism

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distinction
Postmodern Culture or "Postmodernity"
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- Postmodern Theory or "Postmodernism"
- Social History of the Western Subject
- transformative but largely unnoticed changes effected by new technologies
- change as social situations change
- "What is
  a tree?"
- idea of authorship and of the ownership of original work are integrally
  connected to the establishment of literate culture
- questions of honor and shame
- communal literate source
- oral culture
- only
  oral stories
- no written source
- Money, production, consumption and labor could not be understood as
  abstract quantitites
- justice had to be determined by way of competing accounts and in a case-by-case
  manner
- by force closer to
- the
  "materiality" of the individual's labor
- one cements bonds between people through the circulation of gifts
- no mere coincidence that the most powerful God,
  Zeus, is precisely the God of hospitality
- women as gifts
- sacrifice
- Renaissance
- "guilt culture,"
- introduction
  of print reproduction
- effect of permanence
- also
  brings religion to the individual reader
- a time of questioning and scientific discovery
- and
  a time of political revolution
- the movement into a monotheistic belief system
- the beginning of the internalization of epic values
- identity suddenly becomes "vertical," existing on a deep scale
  of internal struggle
- In short, the private self is invented
- One can see elements of this transition in the movement from the Old
  Testament's "jealous God," Jahweh, to the sacrificing Christ
  of the New Testament
- Restoration/
  Enlightenment:
- retrenchment
- culture seems to subscribe more
  to the values of a shame culture rather than a guilt culture
- Even represented
  family situations
- underlines the formal
  and performative aspects of what is clearly a scene
- Age of Reason. Hierarchy, convention and
  the status quo are valued
- the emphasis on reason also leads to the precepts
  of eighteenth-century humanism
- true will always be the same
  as the good and the right (and the beautiful)
- The American Revolution
- The French Revolution
- The rise of the middle classes
- the rise
  of capitalism as the predominant way to conceive of business relations
- The Industrial Revolution
- Urbanization
- Increasing literacy rates
- This expansion of the reading audience made it possible for
  our modern mass market to become possible
- effects of these changes on the idea of the subject
- individual subject is seen as valued, a new emphasis
  is placed on internal feelings and inspiration
- move epic form away from external battles and
  inwards towards the formation of an individual subject
- rise of urbanization
  leads to a counter-reaction: artists begin to extol the value of nature,
  including sublime landscapes like mountains and oceans that would have
  been considered forbidding by early-eighteenth-century aestheticians
- formation of the Romantic hero
- firmly entrenched
  in guilt culture
- the rise of autobiography
  as a genre
- emergent
  mass market
- new emphasis on individualism
- Caspar David Friedrich's
  "Wanderer"
- invited to take on his point-of-view
- experience his
  emotions before the grandeur of the scene before him.
- final establishment of
  the middle class as the dominant ruling class
- establish the novel as the middle class' primary
  artistic form
- formation
  of a mass market
- turns away
  from the exotic experimentation of Romantic poetry and instead offers
  a critique of Romantic ideals
- Victorian architecture
  (particularly the centrality of the hearth and the separation of rooms
  by hallways) helps to establish spaces where private identity and domesticity
  can be established
- There is still a belief
  among many thinkers in concepts such as truth and progress; however, the
  means taken to achieve utopic goals are often extreme
- fascism, nazism, communism,
  anarchism
- surrealism,
  dadaism, cubism, futurism, expressionism, existentialism, primitivism,
  minimalism, etc.
- this radicalism is driven by a sense that
  Enlightenment values may be suspect. Modernists therefore participate
  in a general questioning of all the values held dear by the Victorian
  period (narrative, referentiality, religion, progress, bourgeois domesticity,
  capitalism, utilitarianism, decorum, empire, industry, etc.)
- In general, there is a fear that things
  have gone off track
- self-reflexivity
- an exploration of psychological
  and subjective states
- alternative ways of thinking about representation
- radical experimentation in form
- fragmentation in form and representation
- extreme ambiguity and simultaneity in structure
- some experimentation in the breakdown between high
  and low forms
- the use of parody and irony
- postmodern artists and theorists continue
  the sorts of experimentation that we can also find in modernist works,
  including the use of self-consciousness, parody, irony, fragmentation,
  generic mixing, ambiguity, simultaneity, and the breakdown between high
  and low forms of expression
- others
  prefer to represent the move into postmodernism as a more radical break
- Many date postmodernity from the sixties when we witnessed the rise of
  postmodern architecture; however, some critics prefer to see WWII as the
  radical break from modernity, since the horrors of nazism (and of other
  modernist revolutions like communism and Maoism) were made evident at
  this time
- extreme self-reflexivity
- In modernism, self-reflexivity tended to be used by "high"
  artists in difficult works (eg. Picasso's painting above); in postmodernism,
  self-reflexive strategies can be found in both high art and everything
  from Seinfeld to MTV
- postmodern architecture, this effect is achieved
  by keeping visible internal structures and engineering elements
- irony and parody
- a breakdown between high and low cultural forms
- Postmodernists
  by contrast often employ pop and mass-produced objects in more immediately
  understandable ways, even if their goals are still often complex (eg.
  Andy Warhol's commentary on mass production and on the commercial aspects
  of "high" art through the exact reproduction of a set of Cambell's
  Soup boxes—on the left)
- retro
- fascinated with styles and fashions from the past,
  which they will often use completely out of their original context
- Jameson and Baudrillard tend to read this tendency as a
  symptom of our loss of connection with historical temporality
- a questioning of grand narratives
- visuality and the simulacrum
  vs. temporality
- As a result, Baudrillard and others have argued (for example, through
  the notion of the simulacrum)
  that we have lost all connection to reality or history
- keeps coming back to the idea that the line separating
  reality and representation has broken down
- (Wag the Dog, Dark
  City, the Matrix, the Truman Show, etc.)
- late capitalism
- disorientation
- attempts to
  disorient the subject entering its space
- secondary orality