It calls simulation and this lettuces are simulacra. So, he creates a perception on our minds. This vegetable seller make us think that to buy it. So, we supposed that this one is fresh and well reared one. Then, we think that ‘Okay, it’s a good one, let’s buy it”.
And on those lettuces, we see water droplets. To give a simple example when we enter to a greengrocer, we see some vegetables like some lettuce. Some people direct us and we may not be aware of it. He gave various examples from different fields while explaining that argue. There is a confusion between the reality and image ‘public opinion’. Thus, Baudrillard questioning this reality. What if someone make us think like in this way. What if this decision that we say ‘it’s beautiful’ is not our own decision. For example, when we look at something and then we think that it’s so beautiful.
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We supposed that all these things actually our decisions and we have free will. He claim that many things about our lives included thinking ways, beliefs, emotions, our view points, our attitudes to the life etc. In this book, he is questioning our living way and reality somehow. According to some resources he was a Marxist, and critised Marxism too. ‘Simulacra and simulation’ was written by French sociologist and philosopher Jean Baudrillard. They have relation about modernism, passing to post-modernism and metanarratives and three of them argue those thoughts’ discrepancy. But there is something which connects them somehow in a same way. All of them were written by different authors and they talk about various thoughts.
The books which are ‘The postmodern condition’, ‘Simulacra and simulation’ and ‘All that is solid melts into air” actually critised those issues. Many authors or artists have been written or criticised about modernism, constructivism, cubism, post-modernism or different metanarratives. In history, numerous movements and ways of thinking have been created in different fields included art, literature, philosophy and architecture etc.
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