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[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 26 points 4 days ago

It looks like a parody of those saccharine holiday commercials which just show happy people consuming The Product next to a Christmas tree. There wasn't any message there, just a series of images, some of which had a corporate logo.

Baudrillard stays winning.

The fourth stage is pure simulacrum, in which the simulacrum has no relationship to any reality whatsoever. Here, signs merely reflect other signs and any claim to reality on the part of images or signs is only of the order of other such claims. This is a regime of total equivalency, where cultural products need no longer even pretend to be real in a naïve sense, because the experiences of consumers' lives are so predominantly artificial that even claims to reality are expected to be phrased in artificial, "hyperreal" terms. Any naïve pretension to reality as such is perceived as bereft of critical self-awareness, and thus as oversentimental.

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