Santa Claus lived in North Pole along with his associates and flies around the world on his sledge pulled by reindeers (with the speed of light) carrying gifts as per children’s wishes. Mickey and Minnie mouse had their real homes in Disneyland. We have grown up all those years believing that Disney was real and it had princes and princesses, kings and queens, dwarfs, Cinderella and Snow White and what not. Santa Claus is hyperreality, Disneyland is hyperreality, the tooth fairy is hyperreality.
#Simulacra and simulation in french full
Because the real appears to be boring, hard to digest, full of challenges that’s why knowingly (or unknowingly), we want to take refuge in hyperreality. Again, majority of us misunderstood what he actually meant.īaudrillard was of the view that in contemporary times the hyperreality is so intoxicating, captivating and mesmerizing that we want to live inside it. The images and media environment looked more real and influencing than the real. He took the world by storm when he made the most controversial statement (for some), “The Gulf war did not take place,” meaning that the reality of the war was presented to the world as (mis) represented of re-represented by the media. The environment is so fluid that we cannot distinguish between the real and the unreal.
According to him we live in a Simulacrum meaning a virtual arena where the reality has been replaced by simulations, representations, images and more precisely false images. What is Hyperreality after all? Baudrillard sees it in a different perspective. Alongside JeanFrançois Lyotard’s, Baudrillard too was convinced that we live in hyperreality.īut he went a step ahead in proposing his philosophy. However, majority of us misunderstood him when he proposed such ideas. Whatever he prophesized, decades ago, is appearing to be true in present times. Let’s start with the more complex concepts, Baudrillard’s ‘Simulacra and Simulation.’ Perhaps the famous French philosopher and cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard got inspiration from Plato’s ‘Allegory of Cave’ which became the basis of his famous book ‘Simulacra and Simulation’ published in 1981. However, let’s try and make an endeavour to answer some of these questions.
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