The idea of the simulacrum. Reality as a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy etc. with no referent. Images of ideology serving as the foundation for reality. Existence in the hyperreal=Existence in a late capitalist society. The boundaies between real and imaginary, true and false permeated from both sides to where binary thought breaks down(? need to finsih the book before I decide on that one, either way, conceptions becomes more complicated). Artifically created signs as referents. Nothing "real" left in realtiy.
This stuff gets me hot.
Edited to update: Not a big fan of books that go off in theory and have little to no grounding. I think I'm on my own with the breakdown of binary thought. I maintain, however, that when a group of people in a dynamic social system simulanteously create opposing categories those people are an essential third element to the so-called binary processing. More on that when I can say more about it. For now, I will explore how mutual images of Japan and the US interact in the realm of simulacra to create a strange new reality.
It's papers like these that remind me why I devote so much of my time to school.
This stuff gets me hot.
Edited to update: Not a big fan of books that go off in theory and have little to no grounding. I think I'm on my own with the breakdown of binary thought. I maintain, however, that when a group of people in a dynamic social system simulanteously create opposing categories those people are an essential third element to the so-called binary processing. More on that when I can say more about it. For now, I will explore how mutual images of Japan and the US interact in the realm of simulacra to create a strange new reality.
It's papers like these that remind me why I devote so much of my time to school.
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Interesting project on Japan and the US, if my guess that you speak in a modern context is right, I see your angle. Im thinking of exploring the east/west divide (or transient unity as your paper may suggest) through looking at canonised paintings from both China and Italy in the late Ming dynasty (when trade started to flow). This leads to hilarious consequences as the two chums (sometimes bitter enemies) struggle to adapt each others perspective systems and debate ensues. Oscar: Best Adapted Screenplay .. thank you
Hmmm i can win an Oscar but i can't make the text fill the box, its the little things ...
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