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03/27/2007 09:29:54 AM · #1 |
for some this might not be different than most challenges ;)
From //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreality
"The simulation of something which never really existed." - Jean Baudrillard
Examples:
* a sports drink of a flavour that doesn't exist ("wild ice zest berry")
* pornography ("sexier than sex itself")
* a plastic Christmas tree that looks better than a real Christmas tree ever could
* a magazine photo of a model that has been touched up with a computer
* a well manicured garden (nature as hyperreal)
* any massively promoted versions of historical or present "facts", such as Wikipedia
* professional sports athletes as super, invincible versions of human beings
* the Gulf War, to the extent that America understood it: Baudrillard claimed that the Gulf War never happened.
* Many world cities and places which did not evolve as functional places with some basis in reality, as if they were creatio ex nihilo (literally 'creation out of nothing'): Disney World, Dubai, Celebration, Florida; and Las Vegas
* TV and film in general (especially "reality" TV), due to its creation of a world of fantasy and its dependence that the viewer will engage with these fantasy worlds
* a retail store that looks completely stocked and perfect due to facing, creating a world of endless identical product
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03/27/2007 10:24:38 AM · #2 |
a day at work after consuming a 6 pack of red bull for breakfast.... ;}
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03/27/2007 10:44:33 AM · #3 |
I really like the reference to Baudrillard !!
:)
simulacra is also a perfect theme for a challenge, shift in meaning of signs for example, copies replace originals... so interesting!
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03/27/2007 11:01:21 AM · #4 |
If you woke up and every cell in your body had been replaced with an exact duplicate, would you still be you? And would you still win a ribbon?
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