Because the local discussion of this framework grew out of Jessica Taylor’s reading ofWikipedia’s reading of continental philosopher Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, about how modern Society has ceased dealing with reality itself, and instead deals with our representations of it—maps that precede the territory, copies with no original. (That irony that no one in this discussion has actually read Baudrillard should not be forgotten!)
I feel sufficiently correctly shamed by this that I’ve ordered the book and will try and read it as soon as possible. It’s clearly worth the effort at this point.
As my other comment here notes, I do think the two models fit together, but it’s going to be tough to properly describe how.
There is some chance, for reasons actually completely unrelated to the current discussion, that I might actually try to read the original work. Would be kinda interested in book-clubbing it.
I agree that’s a fun irony, but I don’t think it’s a perfect irony—e.g. if I had actually read Baudrillard and tried to represent their thought in my answer, that would be a more perfect instance of the phenomenon they are talking about than what actually happened. I wasn’t talking about Baudrillard’s or anyone else’s concept, but only about my own, and said so. So I was dealing with territory itself, so to speak.
Because the local discussion of this framework grew out of Jessica Taylor’s reading of Wikipedia’s reading of continental philosopher Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation, about how modern Society has ceased dealing with reality itself, and instead deals with our representations of it—maps that precede the territory, copies with no original. (That irony that no one in this discussion has actually read Baudrillard should not be forgotten!)
I feel sufficiently correctly shamed by this that I’ve ordered the book and will try and read it as soon as possible. It’s clearly worth the effort at this point.
As my other comment here notes, I do think the two models fit together, but it’s going to be tough to properly describe how.
There is some chance, for reasons actually completely unrelated to the current discussion, that I might actually try to read the original work. Would be kinda interested in book-clubbing it.
I agree that’s a fun irony, but I don’t think it’s a perfect irony—e.g. if I had actually read Baudrillard and tried to represent their thought in my answer, that would be a more perfect instance of the phenomenon they are talking about than what actually happened. I wasn’t talking about Baudrillard’s or anyone else’s concept, but only about my own, and said so. So I was dealing with territory itself, so to speak.