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“At the start of the twenty-first century, in a period dubbed the postmodern, at a moment when the mass cultural technologies of simulation - film, television, the Internet - are sophisticated enough to become the sites of experience, the time has come to direct our energy away from simply condemning these state of affairs and toward using these technologies in a progressive and socially responsible way.”

the hyperreal and the simulacrum are really difficult concepts as in order to understand them one has to allow themselves to enter baudrillard’s pure nihilism, where nothing is real and all signs only obfuscate the absence of any substance whatsoever. as opposed to resigning oneself to the meaninglessness that could be found in these ideas, one can see the infinite interpolation of all things everywhere…

this is maybe the best book ive ever read in my entire life i am so obsessed

really dreamy perfect for before bed

concise, striking, imaginative images stringing together to make robust characters. the historical information is incorporated interestingly and seemlessly.