Critical and ideal projection depends on a distance that simulation progressively abolishes.

Evidence

There is no real, there is no imaginary except at a certain distance. What happens when this distance, including that between the real and the imaginary, tends to abolish itself, to be reabsorbed on behalf of the model? Well, from one order of simulacra to another, the tendency is certainly toward the reabsorption of this distance, of this gap that leaves room for an ideal or critical projection. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 394

Categorization

• XREF: Grounds the shared Jameson/Baudrillard diagnosis that critical distance is precisely what the postmodern era erodes, even as they evaluate that loss differently. — connects to: Simulation begins when the distance between cause and effect collapses into implosion. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 114; Critical distance requires withdrawal from public opinion, not from people — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 481; Simulation threatens power more than real transgression by attacking the reality principle itself — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 74 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Critical distance from capital has been abolished in postmodern space #expands (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 158
• Critical distance requires withdrawal from public opinion, not from people #qualifies (0.80) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 481
• In the simulation order, reality has become the alibi of the model. #expands (0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 400
• Simultaneous immersion and critical distance form the root of critical theory #qualifies (0.78) — , A Year of World Stories, 18
• In simulation the real and its image become mutually reversible reflections #expands (0.78) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 469
• Simulation threatens power more than real transgression by attacking the reality principle itself #expands (0.75) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 74
• A physical elsewhere allows critical distance from a society’s deadly assumptions #qualifies (0.75) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 399