On Simulacra and Simulations

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" 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. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor survives it. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory - precession of simulacra - it is the map that engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map. It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire, but our own. The desert of the real itself."

Speculating away on the notion of a hyperreal, Sam Renseiw captured some quiet reality footage from the kitchen corner; Day 3 entry for videobloggingweek2007. View the unfolding corny map of the territory by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 382, 01'02'', 4.7 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

On the ecstasy of communication

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"The simulacra have passed from the second to the third, from the dialectic of alienation to the giddiness of transparency. At the same time, after and with De la Séduction the dream of a transgression...and the nostalgia for a symbolic order of any kind, born out of the deep of primitive societies, or of our historical alienation, have been lost. With Séduction there is...no more recovered object, no more original desire..."

Capturing some obscene footage without any secret(s), dissolving completely in information and communication, Sam Renseiw speculates in a short (re)production of simulacra and seduction. View the readable, moving pro forma commodity by clicking here or enter the generalised interface above. (patafilm # 368, 02'51'', 25.7 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)