Production’s hidden purpose is restoring the real through hyperreal resemblance

Evidence

What every society looks for in continuing to produce, and to overproduce, is to restore the real that escapes it. … Thus everywhere the hyperrealism of simulation is translated by the hallucinatory resemblance of the real to itself. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 85

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the hyperreal as a scaled-down refraction of the real, its ‘hallucinatory resemblance to itself.’
• XREF: connects to: Hyperreal cities need imaginary parks to feed the energy of the real — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 51; Overproduction aims to restore a real that escapes society — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 85; Hyperreality is the cinema converging on both the real and itself — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 168 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Hyperreality is the cinema converging on both the real and itself #expands (0.85) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 168
• Simulation substitutes signs of the real for the real itself #expands (0.85) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 9
• In simulation the real and its image become mutually reversible reflections #expands (0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 469
• The real arranged itself to mirror the film’s simulated catastrophe #exemplifies (0.80) — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 182
• Models can become true by reshaping reality to fit them #corroborates (0.75) — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 1426