In hyperreality no external standpoint remains for critique or resistance.

Evidence

An about-face through which it becomes impossible to locate one instance of the model, of power, of the gaze, of the medium itself, because you are always already on the other side. No more subject, no more focal point, no more center or periphery: pure flexion or circular inflexion. No more violence or surveillance: only “information,” secret virulence, chain reaction, slow implosion, and simulacra of spaces in which the effect of the real again comes into play. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 109

Categorization

• XREF: This ‘no more subject, no more center’ passage is the point where Jameson’s ‘cognitive mapping’ intervenes — the reader’s comparative project hinges on Baudrillard’s refusal of any critical standpoint versus Jameson’s search for a map. — connects to: Reification is an illusion, so grounds for refusal persist — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 884

Broader Connections

• Reification is an illusion, so grounds for refusal persist #contradicts (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 884