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A review by alexander0
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
3.0
Primarily the information of this book is laid out in the first two chapters. Much of the rest of it is organized as particular cases of technologies, economies, and "communication" systems that on which the book rests its arguments. However, it is difficult to see these cases as situationally organized to theorize the truth rather than being accurately empirical.
The structure of this book makes for an interesting metaphor of how material structures move when the real rests on nothing but a multifaceted, socially self-perpetuating image of real. But this work I think is extended and bounded by Galloway's _Protocol_. Baudrillard is reaching to understand the protocols which wrap his "reality".
I did not feel as though I learned much beyond the descriptions that others have had about this book. It seems to me that the primary arguments of this can be given in about 15 pages, and the rest is about restructuring media and communication studies in ways that seem relatively clear today.
The structure of this book makes for an interesting metaphor of how material structures move when the real rests on nothing but a multifaceted, socially self-perpetuating image of real. But this work I think is extended and bounded by Galloway's _Protocol_. Baudrillard is reaching to understand the protocols which wrap his "reality".
I did not feel as though I learned much beyond the descriptions that others have had about this book. It seems to me that the primary arguments of this can be given in about 15 pages, and the rest is about restructuring media and communication studies in ways that seem relatively clear today.