Sunday, October 04, 2015

UNDERSTANDING JEAN BAUDRILLARD WITH PUMPKIN SPICE LATTES

"For Baudrillard, simulation can be thought of like a timeline from representation to simulation in 4 steps, as he notes in his book “Simulacra and Simulation.”
  1. Images are reflection of a profound reality: A picture of pumpkin is like the real thing.
  2. Images mask and denature a profound reality. A picture of the pumpkin is like a shitty version of the real thing.
  3. Images masks the absence of a profound reality, the cake pumpkin was a lie.
  4. The image has lost all connection to reality. It is pure simulation. Pumpkins, as a natural phenomenon, are a lie and this picture I just handed you is just a napkin that I peed on."