In an AI-saturated age, recognizing this dynamic holds liberating potential. Witnessing AI mimic human desire—impeccably, yet emptily—can awaken us to reclaim our autonomy. Instead of reflexively ...

Even within the boundaries of simulations ... It's hard to resist Jean Baudrillard's hyperbolic torrent of brilliant connectionisms, but I do have a problem with a fundamental assertion in his essay ...

Say: This is a simulacrum, you are merely a simulacrum, this war is a simulacrum—everyone bursts out laughing.—Jean ... simulacra are the true simulacra in the strict and proper sense. Their rise and ...

Contrastingly, the French postmodern philosopher and cultural theorist, Jean Baudrillard ... etc.). In his 1981 seminal work, Simulacra and Simulations, Baudrillard presented signs as tools ...

Class, Race and Corporate Power, Vol. 11, No. 2 (2023) (17 pages) This article extends the argument made in “Apple ‘Porn’: Design Videos as Seduction and Exploitation” (Ferriss 2018) to consider the ...

French sociologist Jean Baudrillard’s concept of simulacra steps in ... Is AI the Ultimate Simulacrum? When the copier isn’t human, the dynamic shifts profoundly. Consider large language ...