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Shady Maples's avatar

This post has redeemed Baudrillard somewhat in my eyes. I still think much of Simulacra and Simulacrum was bullshit in the finest tradition of French postmodernism, but the levels of simulacra has explanatory power. Thanks for this, I really enjoyed reading it.

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> What makes level 2 distinct from level 1 is not whether the statement is true, but whether or not you care whether it is true.

Also known as "bullshit", from "On Bullshit". This is precisely Frankfurt's definition of bullshit.

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