Attempts to capture reality unmediated transform it into hyperreality instead
Evidence
Much of Baudrillard’s work was a commentary on this same effect: the way in which the abolition of the Symbolic led not to a direct encounter with the Real, but to a kind of hemorrhaging of the Real. For Baudrillard, phenomena such as fly on the wall documentaries and political opinion polls – both of which claimed to present reality in an unmediated way – would always pose an insoluble dilemma. Did the presence of the cameras affect the behavior of those being filmed? Would the publication of poll results affect the future behavior of voters? Such questions were undecidable, and therefore ‘reality’ would always be elusive: at the very moment when it seemed that it was being grasped in the raw, reality transformed into what Baudrillard, in a much misunderstood neologism, called ‘hyperreality’. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 99
Categorization
- DEFINE: Explains Baudrillard’s concept of hyperreality as the outcome of unmediated capture attempts rather than simulation.
- XREF: connects to: Production’s hidden purpose is restoring the real through hyperreal resemblance — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 85; Ubiquitous taping destroys the illusion that an unmediated real exists — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 769; In simulation the real and its image become mutually reversible reflections — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 469 (+6 more)
Related
- Ubiquitous taping destroys the illusion that an unmediated real exists (similarity 0.85)
- Hyperreality is the cinema converging on both the real and itself (similarity 0.84)
- Production’s hidden purpose is restoring the real through hyperreal resemblance (similarity 0.83)
- Illusion is impossible today because the real itself is no longer possible (similarity 0.83)
- Hyperreal objects resemble nothing but the empty form of resemblance itself. (similarity 0.80)
- In simulation the real and its image become mutually reversible reflections (similarity 0.80)
- Simulation substitutes signs of the real for the real itself (similarity 0.79)
- In the simulation order, reality has become the alibi of the model. (similarity 0.79)
- Faithful duplication makes reality itself ideological by collapsing image into thing (similarity 0.79)
- Homecamming differs from reality TV in being unedited and uncontrived (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Photorealist painting depicts photographs of reality, not reality itself
#exemplifies(0.90) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 119 - Production’s hidden purpose is restoring the real through hyperreal resemblance
#expands(0.85) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 85 - Ubiquitous taping destroys the illusion that an unmediated real exists
#corroborates(0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 769 - Brute factual reality resists attempts to impose an alternate one
#contradicts(0.85) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 167 - Reality is grasped only as a series of further representations
#corroborates(0.82) - In simulation the real and its image become mutually reversible reflections
#corroborates(0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 469 - Models can become true by reshaping reality to fit them
#expands(0.80) — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 1426 - Immediacy aesthetic rests on unattainable imagined reals that disavow subjectivity
#qualifies(0.78) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 97