Debord / Baudrillard
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Debord's Society of the Spectacle and Baudrillard's Precession of the Simulacra:
We can make an analogy between Debord's idea of the spectacle affecting our real life with Baudrillard's concept of Hyperreality which is the result of the simulation of something that never really existed in reality.Thus, it is this simulacra or spectacle that determines our perception of reality and BECOMES THE REAL.
Our perception of reality is totally affected by the information presented through the media. So for these 2 authors, freedom becomes a simulation of freedom, and power a simulation of power, where culture industry imposes choices on us. With democracy and capitalism, we think we are free but it is only a simulated freedom, only a matter of consumption where the choices offered to us are predetermined.
In the world of hyperreality,Baudrillard saw the death of Foucault’s theory of the Panopticon, the boundaries between knowledge and information, between real and virtual, between dominance and resistance, are all blurred.It is no longer knowledge that rules but media information.
Debord's Society of the Spectacle and Baudrillard's Precession of the Simulacra:
We can make an analogy between Debord's idea of the spectacle affecting our real life with Baudrillard's concept of Hyperreality which is the result of the simulation of something that never really existed in reality.Thus, it is this simulacra or spectacle that determines our perception of reality and BECOMES THE REAL.
Our perception of reality is totally affected by the information presented through the media. So for these 2 authors, freedom becomes a simulation of freedom, and power a simulation of power, where culture industry imposes choices on us. With democracy and capitalism, we think we are free but it is only a simulated freedom, only a matter of consumption where the choices offered to us are predetermined.
In the world of hyperreality,Baudrillard saw the death of Foucault’s theory of the Panopticon, the boundaries between knowledge and information, between real and virtual, between dominance and resistance, are all blurred.It is no longer knowledge that rules but media information.
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