Tarantino, Deleuze, Baudrillard, tomates

In memoriam - Affonso Berardinelli Tarantino

http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1806-37132014000500001 from various Brazilian states (all of whom were dear friends of Tarantino’s) and had the striking characteristic of being thorough and profound without ever abandoning a practical discourse. Tarantino used to say that he had to be able to communicate with physicians anywhere in Brazil, even in the most remote parts of the country. His book (whic...

Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra and Simulations

ion 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 ...

Jean Baudrillard Simulacra and Simulations

ion 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 ...

Deleuze, Guattari and Emergence

Simulacra and Simulation: Baudrillard and The Matrix

Philosophers can get pretty excited about The Matrix . An apparent exception is Jean Baudrillard, the author of Simulacra and Simulation (henceforth, S&S), the book that appears in the movie. Numerous sources report Baudrillard saying that the movie “stemmed mostly from misunderstandings” of his work. So a natural point of inquiry has been whether or not this is true. Yeffeth (2002) contains tw...