An ENGL 470A presentation.

1. PREVIOUSLY ON

7. How to (mis)read Baudrillard Baudrillard is known for his: Aphoristic writing Hyperbolic statements Politically charged examples

11. Simulation vs Simulacrum Simulation refers to a process in motion, whereas simulacrum (plural simulacra) refers to a more static image

12. Simulation is a 4 step process of destabilizing and replacing reality 1. Faithful - The image reflects a profound reality Portrait 2. Perversion - The image masks and denatures a profound reality Icon 3. Pretense - The image masks the absence of a profound reality Disneyland 4. Pure - The image has no relation to any reality whatsoever, it is its own pure simulacrum. “The ultimate Matrix”

14. Simulacra and Ethnology Video: http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/brazilfootage “ We have all become living specimens in the spectral light of ethnology...[I]t is thus very naive to look for ethnology in the Savages or in some Third World - it is here, everywhere...in a world completely cataloged and analyzed, then artificially resurrected under the auspices of the real...” (8)

17. Reality television or cinema verite as hyperreal “ reality tv as “exhumation of the real in its fundamental banality, in its radical authenticity (27)”

19. Cold War The hyperreal Holocaust Kennedy Assassination All previous presidents pay for and continue to pay for Kennedy's murder as if they were the ones who had suppressed it - which is true phantasmatically, if not in fact…”(25)

23. Questions

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