Deadline for essay = week 12, December 12.30 - 2.30
- Simulacra and Simulation - Jean Baudrillard
- Modern society replaces all reality and meaning with symbols and signs
- world we live in replaced by a 'copy world'
- individual in post modern world becomes entity influenced by media, technology, experience and the hyper real
- our generation now sharing experiences
- hyper reality - more real than real
- The Matrix - concept: world first introduced that seems real is a computer simulation
- The Truman Show - existense appears to be concrete, real turns out to be a constructed TV stage
- Disneyland Florida - more real than real, more vivid, more satisfying
- Perfect model of all entangled orders of simulacra - illusions and phantasms
- Umberto ECO - writes about Disneyland as a 'shiny bauble' , public meant to admire the fake, can give us more reality than the world can
- pleasure of immitation innates the human spirit as it has reached it's apex
- the Seagaia Ocean Dome, Japan - perfect waves proper realiable experience of reality
- Las Vegas, Nevada - the great fake world, playground for the rich and famous, imagination provoked
- Disney's Celebration Town, Florida - 'utopian project'
- David Boyle picks up with hyper reality of fantasy compares Celebration Town to suburb imprisonment in the Truman Show
- houses influence fairy tales, the fantasy of perfect America, the time of innocense
- Nostagic - did it ever exist
- The Stepford Wives - sassy photographer moves to an iconic town - all women replaced by robots - all is not as it seems
- idea of zombies and happy what companies want us to be like to 'manufacture into'
- Poundbury, contemporary 'utopian project' - enshrine 'englishness' - how it use to be
- Boyle talks if you deconstruct this - they are highly conservative - but better for whom?
- they are metanarratives - not quite the real
- "We live, not inside reality, but instead a representation of it"
- our society has become relliant on maps, models and images that are lost all contact with the real world
- reality has began to immitate the model
- we have lost ability to make sense of distinction between nature and artiface
- he (Baudrillard) argues three orders of Simulacra
- the sign of illusion
- idea gets mass produced and grows in influence - grows in power gets harder to distinquish
- the representation preceeds the real, no longer a distinction
- IFF.com - flavours for foods created - intense proper - 'the true taste' for every consumer preference
- Britney Murphy - air brushed version more commercial, sells beauty but skin is hyper real because impossible to become
- Barbie clearly a contifet but people become manufactured according to that image
- Men also buy into a manufactured world to become 'perfect' trying to become a reflection of the unreal
- 'Christmas' major hyperreal created we see it by victorians, causes stress and panick to create a fiction
- Diana's death - public - worldwide gathering but someone who we don't truely know but given to us by an image / a symbol
- Twin Towers - Filmic can't believe it's quite real =- the news created a 'hyper real' event
- story of Jade Goody - character of news paper, lived and died infront of us
- Valerie Belin took photos of Michael Jackson look - likes had surgery to become like the icon, immitating a person already in hyper real so they are even further away
- Avatar - current example, 'Post Avatar Depression' disappointment of the real world compared to the fake map in the film
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