The postmodern condition (Postmodernism)
def. Simulation
- btw. illusion problem!= simulation problem
- There is no way out of the simulation
- postmodern age: no longer a distinction between illusion and reality ⇒ this situation is a simulation
- “stranded in a world without referents”
- The desert of the real (everything scary about postmodernism!)
- “tribute to individuals which is property and function of the simulation”
- “the analyst of simulation, therefore, is subject to the very rule he or she analyzes”
- Simulation attempts to
hypermarket
def. Referent
- a signpost into reality
def. Simulacra
def. Hyperreality. See Living in Hyper-Reality