The successive phases of images are quite possibly the most contradictory set of ideas that I have ever endured. How can one determine if an image is reality, masks reality, masks the absence of reality or has no relation to reality? I could sit here and argue that everything is reality and that nothing is reality.
What is the difference between real and fake and would we even be able to recognize it if we tried? Reality TV is supposedly based off of reality yet directors are allowed to “re-shoot” a “real” situation. In theory this would make one of the two shots real and one of them fake…so the question becomes which one?
In relation to other theorists we have studied, Baudrillard’s perspective on reality is much more broad. For example, Lyotard states that reality is simply unable to be defined. He feels that people create allusions to reality in order to avoid the consequences that are reality, whereas Baudrillard's beliefs are ever changing...
Baudrilliard states on page 229 that, "There is no good use of the media; the media is part of the event, they are part of the terror, and they work in both directions." As soon as I heard this quote in class today I immediately thought of the 9/11 Conspiracy video, “loose change.” In short this video claims that the media and United States government were behind the September 11th attacks on the twin towers. The controversy created by this video was immense but one fact remained the same. “Loose Change” was based on the impact of media on our society and interestingly enough it was the same media outlets from the video that created a national phenomenom out of the movie…
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good connections
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