IN126 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jean Baudrillard, Virtual Reality, Unreliable Narrator
30 Jun 2017
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Probably not happening because deadweight/carrying a body down the street unnoticed. Possible indifference to the horror of living. Don"t want to interfere with violence-want to stay out of it don"t want to know. Describing surroundings to ground himself (clothes and other things) relationship to reality. How the novel is thinking about patrick vs. patrick thinking about patrick. We use the existence of virtual reality to legitimate reality itself. Reality is that which is positioned against virtual reality to legitimize reality. Virtual reality is as real as reality because it acknowledges that it is not real. Our reality is real because virtual reality is not real but it is real so none of them are real as we usually mean real . There is no way to get back to something that is. Real and concrete because there is no language and language proceeds us.
