[No.4] The Conceal of the None Continues...
-Reflection of Simulations p23-37
To be honest, this session of Simulations gets me the most confused. Once things start relating to political, I am out. However, I do have some afterthought of Baudrillard's main idea in this session.
Basically he is saying "every form of power, every situation speaks of itself by denial, in order to attempt to escape, by simulation of death, its real agony" (37, Baudrillard's). If we use a counter-theory to denial a theory, the disapproval formula will never end, because we can just use another anti-counter situation to further against the former. As long as this dilemma goes infinite, the infinite becomes none. Which mean nothing needs to be prove at the first place.
In this session of reading, Baudrillard continues the discussion of "the truth conceals that there is none" by using Disneyland and Watergate scandal as example to further help the viewer understand what does he means by "there is none". Let me bring out the only example that I understood in this session:
If we are always looking for the absolute comparison, we can never find the answer because all the opposite sides of things are actually the same thing with the same beginning and ending point.
To be honest, this session of Simulations gets me the most confused. Once things start relating to political, I am out. However, I do have some afterthought of Baudrillard's main idea in this session.
Basically he is saying "every form of power, every situation speaks of itself by denial, in order to attempt to escape, by simulation of death, its real agony" (37, Baudrillard's). If we use a counter-theory to denial a theory, the disapproval formula will never end, because we can just use another anti-counter situation to further against the former. As long as this dilemma goes infinite, the infinite becomes none. Which mean nothing needs to be prove at the first place.
In this session of reading, Baudrillard continues the discussion of "the truth conceals that there is none" by using Disneyland and Watergate scandal as example to further help the viewer understand what does he means by "there is none". Let me bring out the only example that I understood in this session:
"Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real" (25, Baudrillard).
If we are always looking for the absolute comparison, we can never find the answer because all the opposite sides of things are actually the same thing with the same beginning and ending point.
The world doesn't work in the way, we can't define all the "yes" and "no", all the "left" and "right". All the conceal just doesn't work, that's it.
I also wrote about Disneyland and I feel like we kind of have the same understanding.
ReplyDeleteI wrote about Disneyland a while ago because I saw Johnie's post on the digital processes blog. :') I feel the same way about the counter points being brought up, its like a never ending cycle...or...perhaps a mobious strip?
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