Simulacra and Simulation: Baudrillard and The Matrix
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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 two essays both entitled “ The Matrix : Paradigm of post-modernism or intellectual poseur?”; one answering “the former” and the other “the latter,” and both apparently assuming the disjunction is exclusive. 1In this article I will point out some further interpretations, and (eventually) argue for one of them.
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