擬仿物與擬像

• 小马也

  2018-02-15
  the cinema is fascinated by itself as a lost object as much as it (and we) are fascinated by the real as a lost referent
• 逃名刺身

  2018-01-05
  Such was the silence of madmen that it forced us to the hypothesis of the unconscious - such is the resistance of animals that it forces us to change hypotheses.
• 一笼

  2022-01-19
  Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation. It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology) but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle.
• bibo

  2021-05-20
  We are witnessing the end of perspectival and panoptic space (which remains a moral hypothesis bound up with all the classical analysis on the "objective" essence of power), and thus to the very abolition of the spectacular. Television, for example in the case of the Louds, is no longer a specular medium. We are no longer in the society of the spectacle, of which the situationists spoke, nor in the specific kinds of alienation and repression that it implied. The medium itself is no longer identifiable as such, and the confusion of the medium and the message is the first great formula of this new era. There is no longer a medium in the literal sense: it is now intangible, diffused, and diffracted in the real, and one can no longer even say that the medium is altered by it.
• bibo

  2021-05-20
  No more subject, no more focal point, no more centre or periphery: pure flexion or circulation inflection. No more violence or surveillance: only "information," secret virulence, chain reaction, slow implosion, and simulacra of spaces in which the effect of the real again comes into play.
• bibo

  2021-05-20
  In fact, it is TV that is the truth of the Louds, it is TV that is true, it is TV that render true. Truth that is no longer the reflexive truth of the mirror, nor the perspectival truth of the panoptic system and of the gaze, but the manipulative truth of the test that sounds out and interrogates, of the laser that touches and pierces, of computer cards that retain your preferred sequences, of cells that inform your sensory universe.
• bibo

  2021-05-20
  Ideology only corresponds to a corruption of reality through signs; simulation corresponds to a short circuit of reality and to its duplication through signs. It is always the goal of the ideological analysis to restore the objective process, it is always a false problem to wish to restore the truth beneath the simulacrum.This is why in the end power is so much in tune with ideological discourses and discourses in ideology, that is they are discourses of truth---always good for the mortal blows of simulation, even and especially if they are revolutionary.
• bibo

  2021-05-20
  A simulation that ca last indefinitely, because, as distinct from "true" power---which is, or was, a structure, a strategy, a relation of force, a stake---it is nothing but the object of a social demand, and thus as the object of the law of supply and demand, it is no longer subject to violence and death. Completely purged of a political dimension, it, like any other commodity, is dependent on mass production and consumption. It sparks has disappeared, only the fiction of a political universe remains.
• bibo

  2021-05-20
  Through an unforeseen turn of events and via an irony that is no longer that of a history, it is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that religion emerge. A twisted advent, a perverse event, an unintelligible reversion to the logic of reason. As is the fact that power id in essence no longer present expect to conceal that there is no more power.
• bibo

  2021-05-20
  The established order can do nothing against it, because the law is a simulacrum of the second order, whereas simulacrum is of the third order, beyond truth and false, beyond equivalences, beyond rational distinctions upon which the whole of the social and power depend. Thus, lacking the real, it is there that we must aim at order.
• bibo

  2021-05-20
  The impossibility of rediscovering an absolute level of the real is of the same order as the impossibility of staging illusion. Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible. It is the whole political problem of parody, of hypersimulation or offensive simulation, that is posed here.
• bibo

  2021-05-20
  Everything is metamorphosed into its opposite to perpetuate itself in its exported form. All the powers, all the institutions speak of themselves through denial, in order to attempt, by simulating death, to escape their real death throes. Power can stage its own murder to rediscover a glimmer of existence and legitimacy.
• bibo

  2021-05-20
  This anticipation, this precession, this short circuit, this confusion of the fact with its model (no more divergence of meaning, no more dialectical polarity, no more negative electricity, implosion if antagonistic poles), is what allows each time for all possible interpretations, even the most contradictory --- all true, in the sense that their truth is to be exchanged, in the image of the models from which they derive, in a generalized cycle.
• bibo

  2021-05-20
  Capital, in fact, was never linked by a contract to the society that it dominates. It is a sorcery of social relations, it is a challenge to society, and it must be responded to as such. It is not a scandal to be denounced according to the moral or economic rationality, but a challenge to take up according to the symbolic law.
• bibo

  2021-05-20
  And all the recrimination that replaces revolutionary thought today comes back to incriminate capital for not following the rules of the game. "power is unjust, its unjust, its justice is a class justice, capital exploits us, etc." ---as if capital were liked by a contract to the society it rules. It is the Left that holds out the mirror of equivalence to capital hoping that it will comply, comply with this phantasmagoria of the social contract and fulfill its obligations to the whole of the society (by the same token, no need for revolution: it suffice that capital accommodate itself to the rational formula of exchange.
• bibo

  2021-05-20
  Capital, immortal and without scruples, can only function behind a moral superstructure, and whoever revives this public morality (through indignation, denunciation, etc.) works spontaneously for the order of capital.
• bibo

  2021-05-20
  This world wants to be childish in order to make us believe that the adults are elsewhere, in the "real" world, and to conceal the fact that true childishness is everywhere --- that it is that of the adults themselves who come here to act the child in order to foster illusions as to their real childishness.
• bibo

  2021-05-20
  Such would be the successive phases of the image:it is the reflection of a profound reality;it masks and denatures a profound reality;it masks the absence of a profound reality;it has no relation to any reality whatsoever: it is its own pure simulacrum.
• bibo

  2021-05-20
  Representation stems from the principle of the equivalence of the sign and of the real (even if this equivalence is utopian, it is a fundamental axiom). Simulation, on the contrary, stems from the utopia of the principle of equivalence, from the radical negation of the sign as value, from the sign as the reversion and death sentence of every reference.