J 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Jean Baudrillard, Artificial Reality, Simulacrum
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Test: 20 multiple choice questions, 10 short answer questions, 1 essay question. We can"t stop those changes, but we can question them and think about them. Jean baudrillard: theorizes something that will help us understand this lecture. Reality has been replaced, and now we just see traces of reality peeking. Hyper reality: when reality imitates models of reality. Snapchat maps - imitating models of reality through. Indexicality: the relationship between the object and its representation. Picture of a pen vs and actual pen. Manipulation of youtube videos in real time. We are not post-truth we are post-senses. We are living in a world where we choose to mediate the world around us. We are seeing the world through things instead of just as they are. You have to participate, you don"t have another choice. Dominant forms of media today require our participation. Whole stream of data constantly being streamed around the world about all of us.