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Simulacra and Simulation. On this episode, we begin our discussion of the work of Jean Baudrillard. See the full transcript of this episode here. This show is made possible by your generosity. Thank you for anything you can do. Support on Patreon. Stephen West.
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To maximize personal income, CEOs focused on management of short-term earnings and expectations and stock price, not necessarily the actual health of the firm.The markets also began to issue junk bonds, derivatives, and hypervalued internet IPOs, which were actually worthless, but were bundled with valuable instruments or assurances to give the appearance of value.When the financial crises crashed the market, destroying the artificial value, prices were artificially inflated through easing. The health of the economy is measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average even as it provides progressively less accurate information on actual economic activity.
The stock market now represents expectations of Federal Reserve intervention in the stock market, pricing in measures before they are actually announced.Computer program trading algorithms monitor news headlines and analyze semantic content to determine whether there are expectations for the market to increase or decrease, and buy or sell accordingly, causing prices to increase or decrease, whereupon new headlines are issued reflecting the positive or negative change. Expectations of expectations trigger expectations, and there is no relation to the real value of the products that are actually traded.
Worse, the artificiality of the market hinders real trade as resources stand idle due to the absence of certain numbers in certain accounts. The simulation exists for its own sake, and reality is sublimated to the simulation.
Author by: Jeffrey F. KeussLanguange: enPublisher by: Wipf and Stock PublishersFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 66Total Download: 815File Size: 50,7 MbDescription: Freedom of the Self revitalizes the question of identity formation in a postmodern era through a deep reading of Christian life in relation to current trends seen in the Emergent and Missional church movements. By relocating deep identity formation as formed and released through a renewed appraisal of kenotic Christology coupled with readings of Continental philosophy (Derrida, Levinas, Marion) and popular culture, Keuss offers a bold vision for what it means to be truly human in contemporary society, as what he calls the 'kenotic self.'
In addition to providing a robust reflection of philosophical and theological understanding of identity formation, from Aristotle and Augustine through to contemporary thinkers, Freedom of the Self suggests some tangible steps for the individual and the church in regard to how everyday concerns such as economics, literature, and urbanization can be part of living into the life of the kenotic self. Author by: Nicholas MirzoeffLanguange: enPublisher by: Psychology PressFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 80Total Download: 981File Size: 50,8 MbDescription: This book brings together key writings as well as specially commissioned articles covering a wealth of visual forms including photography, painting, sculpture, fashion, advertising, television, cinema and digital culture. The reader features an introductory section tracing the development of visual culture studies in response to globalization and digital culture, and articles grouped into thematic sections, each prefaced by an introduction by the editor. Author by: Paul HegartyLanguange: enPublisher by: A&C BlackFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 54Total Download: 868File Size: 51,5 MbDescription: Jean Baudrillard's work on how contemporary society is dominated by the mass media has become extraordinarily influential. He is notorious for arguing that there is no real world, only simulations which have altered what events mean, and that only violent symbolic exchange can prevent the world becoming a total simulation.
An ideal introduction to this most singular cultural critic and philosopher, Jean Baudrillard: live theory offers a comprehensive, critical account of Baudrillard's unsettling, visionary and often prescient work. Baudrillard's relation to a range of theorists as diverse as Nietzsche, Marx, McLuhan, Foucault and Lyotard is explained, and the impact of his thought on contemporary politics, popular culture and art is analyzed.
Finally, in the new interview included here, Baudrillard outlines his own position and responds to his critics. Author by: Randy LaistLanguange: enPublisher by: Bloomsbury Publishing USAFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 27Total Download: 292File Size: 43,5 MbDescription: Hyperreality is an Alice-in-Wonderland dimension where copies have no originals, simulation is more real than reality, and living dreams undermine the barriers between imagination and objective experience. The most prominent philosopher of the hyperreal, Jean Baudrillard, formulated his concept of hyperreality throughout the 1980s, but it was not until the 1990s that the end of the Cold War, along with the proliferation of new reality-bending technologies, made hyperreality seem to come true. In the “lost decade” between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11, the nature of reality itself became a source of uncertainty, a psychic condition that has been recognizably recorded by that seismograph of American consciousness, Hollywood cinema. The auteur cinema of the 1970s aimed for gritty realism, and the most prominent feature of Reagan-era cinema was its fantastic unrealism.
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Clinton-era cinema, however, is characterized by a prevailing mood of hyperrealism, communicated in various ways by such benchmark films as JFK, Pulp Fiction, and The Matrix. The hyperreal cinema of the 1990s conceives of the movie screen as neither a window on a preexisting social reality (realism), nor as a wormhole into a fantastic dream-dimension (escapism), but as an arena in which images and reality exchange masks, blend into one another, and challenge the philosophical premises which differentiate them from one another. Cinema of Simulation: Hyperreal Hollywood in the Long 1990s provides a guided tour through the anxieties and fantasies, reciprocally social and cinematic, which characterize the surreal territory of the hyperreal.