Blog post #11
To open this section of the book, Baudrillard introduces three orders of appearance, corresponding to the mutations of the law of value: counterfeit (Renaissance), production (industrial), simulation (current), stating that: "The first order of simulacrum is based on the natural law of value, that of the second order on the commercial law of value, that of the third order on the structural law of value." [p.83]
He claims that our society is a hyperreal, consisting of references with no referents. In the Renaissance, people and objects usually represented non-existing things such as class, royalty, or divinity. Everything in society thus became a simulation, divided into categories simulated by us human.
Come to think about it, we literally live in a simulation where everything we know is unreal/simulated. For example, school is a simulation of a place we we learn things. I can also say that school is a simulation of a prison, where students play the role of prisoners, teachers play prison guards. If students (prisoners) do not finishes homework (prisoners becoming better people), they get punished (receiving bad grades) by teachers (prison guards). Also, grades are also a simulation of ranking and punishment. And also, prison could be a simulation of hell. And this could go on and on about everything we know.
But I mean, sometimes we simulate things for the good of society. I just feel like Baudrillard always take way too dim a view in everything he could analyze about our society.
He claims that our society is a hyperreal, consisting of references with no referents. In the Renaissance, people and objects usually represented non-existing things such as class, royalty, or divinity. Everything in society thus became a simulation, divided into categories simulated by us human.
Come to think about it, we literally live in a simulation where everything we know is unreal/simulated. For example, school is a simulation of a place we we learn things. I can also say that school is a simulation of a prison, where students play the role of prisoners, teachers play prison guards. If students (prisoners) do not finishes homework (prisoners becoming better people), they get punished (receiving bad grades) by teachers (prison guards). Also, grades are also a simulation of ranking and punishment. And also, prison could be a simulation of hell. And this could go on and on about everything we know.
But I mean, sometimes we simulate things for the good of society. I just feel like Baudrillard always take way too dim a view in everything he could analyze about our society.
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