Hyper (beyond) Reality
"It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, or even parody. It is a question of substituting the signs of the real for the real" - Jean Baudrillard
Representations of the real are more real than what they're representing.
E.g. creating a new sphinx of the best version of it, not a recreation of the reality
HUMANS and Simulacra?
The synths themselves may be seen as human simulacra - copies of "perfect" humans which do not really exist.
The parallel world to our own is a hyperreality - it is the present or near-future re-presented from a mediated perspective. Consider how this is constructed.
It may be argued that the entire series is based on how the attraction of the hyperreal over the real - e.g. Joe and Toby's sexual attraction to Anita. After Joe has sex with Anita the hyperreal is broken because it wasn't what he expected and the illusion was broken.
Jean Baudrillard - Postmodernism
• In postmodern culture the boundaries between the ‘real’ world and the world of the media have collapsed and that it is no longer possible to distinguish between what is reality and what is simulation. In fact, it really doesn't matter which is which!
• Therefore, in this postmodern age of simulacra, audiences are constantly bombarded with images which no longer refer to anything ‘real’
• Because of this, we are now in a situation that media images have come to seem more ‘real’ than the reality they supposedly represent. This concept is referred to as 'hyperreality'
"It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, or even parody. It is a question of substituting the signs of the real for the real" - Jean Baudrillard
Representations of the real are more real than what they're representing.
E.g. creating a new sphinx of the best version of it, not a recreation of the reality
HUMANS and Simulacra?
The synths themselves may be seen as human simulacra - copies of "perfect" humans which do not really exist.
The parallel world to our own is a hyperreality - it is the present or near-future re-presented from a mediated perspective. Consider how this is constructed.
It may be argued that the entire series is based on how the attraction of the hyperreal over the real - e.g. Joe and Toby's sexual attraction to Anita. After Joe has sex with Anita the hyperreal is broken because it wasn't what he expected and the illusion was broken.
Jean Baudrillard - Postmodernism
• In postmodern culture the boundaries between the ‘real’ world and the world of the media have collapsed and that it is no longer possible to distinguish between what is reality and what is simulation. In fact, it really doesn't matter which is which!
• Therefore, in this postmodern age of simulacra, audiences are constantly bombarded with images which no longer refer to anything ‘real’
• Because of this, we are now in a situation that media images have come to seem more ‘real’ than the reality they supposedly represent. This concept is referred to as 'hyperreality'
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