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> It was well understood that mere simulacra (in the original, pre-Baudrillard sense of the term - a representation of a person) were not to be conflated for th
by metacritic12 4y ago
> It was well understood that mere simulacra (in the original, pre-Baudrillard sense of the term - a representation of a person) were not to be conflated for the person they referred to themselves; the fidelity and character of classical, pre-digital media were sufficiently distinct from "real world" perceptual cues to make this clear.
This is the big concept being questioned today. Why is the "in person" version of a human the canonical "real" version, whilst that person over a telephone, or a Skype screen, or a ChatGPT imitation a "fake" version? Also, for our picture of reality, why is hearing about the world through the rumors of your fellow villagers a more realistic version of the world that one filtered through social media?
- nilmask 4y agoI see. People who cannot afford Internet are not real people. After all, they do not have a "number in some file somewhere."
- msla 4y agoYou're being disingenuous in order to prop up your political philosophy.
- nilmask 4y agoStop exercising your privilege to silence the marginalized voice of an ethnic minority.
- msla 4y agoAnd now you're simply posting in bad faith. Good job making philosophers look like nitwits, I suppose.
- nilmask 4y agoThe only one posting in bad faith is you. You have brought literally nothing substantive to the conversation - no citations, no rebuttals, no arguments, no positions. Allow me to recapitulate your position for you - you are categorically wrong, on all counts. Try getting an education to learn why.
- metacritic12 4y agoWhat I mean is that someone's online self is one projection of the self, and someone's offline self is another projection of the self. Neither is the "true real self", as suggested by some of the people you quoted. Basically, some of the philosophers you quoted suggest a dystopian progress by which we're getting more and more fake by putting on more layers (in person -> phone -> TV -> social media). I don't think this has to be the interpretation.