https://blog.mattwynne.net/2012/09/25/breaking-out-of-the-shu/ Matt Wynne taking it one tea at a time Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:54:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2 https://blog.mattwynne.net/2012/09/25/breaking-out-of-the-shu/comment-page-1/#comment-1763 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 08:48:17 +0000 http://blog.mattwynne.net/?p=444#comment-1763 Ask again. Am I observing cargo culting or is this the Shu phase? By definition cargo culting is not learning, merely an imitation of the action divest of the understanding.
Cargo culting we can understand as the physical expression of simulacra – ‘an image without the substance or qualities of the original’.
According to Jean Baudrillard, in post-moderist age, a simulacrum is not merely a copy of the real, but becomes truth in it’s own right: the hyperreal.
Where Plato saw two steps of reproduction — faithful and intentionally distorted (simulacrum) — Baudrillard sees four: (1) basic reflection of reality, (2) perversion of reality; (3) pretence of reality (where there is no model); and (4) simulacrum, which “bears no relation to any reality whatsoever”.

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