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I can't lay my hands on the book or regrettably recall the author but there was a university book broadly on the op's topic and simulacrum that crossed into wid
by scrubs 10mo ago
I can't lay my hands on the book or regrettably recall the author but there was a university book broadly on the op's topic and simulacrum that crossed into wide spread readership ... beyond academics. One of the lines I remember ran like this: when the currency is BS in an environment of hyper symbolism there can only be one result: hyper BS until it sucks all the oxygen out of room.
How/why'd JD Vance go from cultural heroin to VP? The currency is BS symbolism. And as such doing a 180 is just fine. To all degree there is no underlying reality and little consequence in the land of symbols.
- mitchbob 10mo agoIs the book Beaudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation There were discussions of it on HN a few years ago: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Simulacra+and+Simulation https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Simulacra+and+Simulation
- scrubs 10mo agoNo it's not that one, but thanks for the reference and digging for something. I'll try to find it.
- DisclosureUS 10mo agoYes I was curious, I thought you were reference that book aswell.