Baudrillard's idea of simulacra exemplifies the separation of an ideal existence and the existence apprehensible to the senses. This separation is fundamental to an understanding of the postmodern temper. (short reading of the work by ol' J.B.")
Media experiences are often more satisfying than real experiences. Do we actually still have real experiences or are all our feelings and thoughts dictated by the information society?
Abstraction today is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. (pp.16
The idea of the inventors of Mickey Mouse making a place for real people—rather than cartoon characters—was tailor-made for ridicule from those who disliked the company's conservative futurism.
"If you watch MTV for too long, it's a bit like hell - there's nothing of substance there. So we got this idea for a cartoon band, something that would be a comment on that." Sci-fi master Neil Gaiman meets the Gorillaz.
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