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Thu May-13-10 07:28 AM
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60. Has someone been reading Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation?

Edited on Thu May-13-10 07:30 AM by backscatter712

We've been reading that book for my Contemporary Political Theory class. Then to drive the points of the book home, we watched The Matrix.

Of course, the terms Baudrillard uses are hyperreality and simulation.

P.S. Watch The Matrix for a philosophical Easter Egg. At the beginning, when Neo opens up a hollowed-out book to pull out some disks for those druggie kids, including the girl with the white rabbit tattoo, notice that the book is Simulacra and Simulation...

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