This paper is a literature review that elaborates Baudrillard's thoughts on Simulacra in Consumption Society which can be used as study understanding the phenomenon of consumption society today and future. Basically, according to Baudrillard, its process analyzed two basic perspectives, namely: meaning communication based rules (code), where practices appear receive their meaning. Here, languag...

pink floyd was a british band whose work began in the late 60s. roger waters, the main contributor of the band, wrote almost all the lyrics and was also a main figure behind producing the motion picture of the album. he deliberately attacks western media in both the lyrics he has written for the band and his solo projects. the present study finds this tendency of assaulting the media deeply roo...

Opening with an image of a Boeing airliner falling to the ground, Hito Steyerl’s video In Free Fall (2010) is action-packed, supercharged, and visually enthralling. Steyerl’s work presents re-edited footage from Hollywood disaster movies portraying an airliner about to crash over a nondescript suburban town. In this fast-paced montage a stunned pilot stares at the message ‘system failure’ flash...

Teórico crítico da mídia, Douglas Kellner empreende um notável trabalho de contextualização do pós-moderno, em relação ao moderno. Segundo o estudioso norte-americano, a produção intelectual dos pós-modernos está relacionada diretamente com momento particular vivenciado por eles, principalmente durante as décadas 1960 e 1970. Jean Baudrillard, filósofo mais provocativo extremista época, seria p...