#simulation and simulacra

[3eanuts]

September 22, 1956 — see The Complete Peanuts 1955-1958

[blogginbogg]

has anyone written a paper about eeaao and how it lightly touches upon simulation and simulacra

I’m totally procrastinating on my 2000 word essay about The Matrix and Marxism (why did I choose this), but thinking about it again- EEAAO really has a certainty within each world.

Each multiverse has its quirks, strengths, and things that makes it unique. In that vastness, Jobu begins to lose herself. The blurred lines of each world begin to lose meaning, and nothing is reality to her anymore. All her world is a simulation. Characters literally verse jump: a thing where they emulate the experience and talents of another version of themselves.

Okay I’m done I don’t have enough time to write this I was procrastinating BAD and need to finish the Matrix essay ASAP

[all-yourn]

true detective & "darkness on the edge of town" by bruce springsteen [on youtube]

[lily-of-the-valley-2001]

“Obscenity begins when there is no more spectacle, no more stage, no more theatre, no more illusions, when everything becomes immediately transparent, visible, exposed in the raw and inexorable light of information and communication.”

Jean Baudrillard, The Ecstasy of Communication

[suffercute]

simulacra

[abrahamwood]

This was my Perverts listening set up

[imaginationengine]

The Simulacra Machine 🐝🔥🌏👽

[thirdity]

Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being or substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal. The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is nevertheless the map that precedes the territory — precession of simulacra — that engenders the territory.

Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

[izzyimpart]

"Do You Choose To Glitch Through The Rest Of Your Journey?

>YES

>NO"

Mixed media collage, 2022.

[god-is-dead--see-you-in-hell]

this world isn't real

[illuminesce]

In December of last year, @mabbees and I gave a talk at Nerd Nite Tokyo about a genre of games that have been called "desktop simulators" or "UI games"—essentially, a narrative fiction that takes place entirely within an interface, whether it be a smartphone, an old school Mac, or an imaginary interface in hypnospace.

We called these types of games "Interface Dramas," as in, "telling dramatic stories through the use of interfaces."

We think this should be its own defined genre and should be something games can be tagged as on Steam, just like "point-and-click adventure" games or "story-rich" games.

Check out the transcript of our talk—it goes over what interface dramas have in common with other adjacent genres such as interactive fiction, visual novels, simulation games, and alternate reality games, and what makes them different.

View transcript and slides here.

Games featured in the cover images are:

Terranova

Her Story

SIMULACRA

Hypnospace Outlaw

[autolabrum]

Watched The Matrix

First time getting back to this since middle school, so I have a lot of unorganized thoughts rather than a coherent take because there's so much here I hadn't grasped.

- Hugo Weaving gives one of the great performances. His tonalities and facial movements seem completely impossible, and so perfectly blend with the unreality brought on by the visual effects that it's impossible to tell what is him and what isn't (but I think it's mostly him).

- I do think I'm finally ready to actually watch the Dune movies again and for them to click. I expect that watching Stilgar (already the most interesting character) in the context of Morpheus will really elucidate the themes for me so that they finally feel actually interesting.

- On that topic, the seemingly devout religious belief here is really interesting, and I'm excited to go into the sequels again with a better idea of how weird it is that faith in a universal, resurrected savior is so completely rewarded in this one. Neo's closing remark that he's going to show humanity a "world where anything's possible" now indelibly recalls Samuel Delany's Dhalgren, where the protagonist laments that "The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen". Gonna be thinking about those diametrically opposed viewpoints for a while.

- I do think this is plausibly the single most influential text for our modern understanding of cyberpunk, even moreso than Blade Runner. Ridley Scott's influence is clear here, but it's more Alien than anything else, and the slimier, more integrated sense of transhumanism really resonates. In a sense the genre seems to have gone backwards from something like Neuromancer to this, in that it began plagued by classically existentialist questions which only here are answered with a heavily Kierkegaardian sense of faith. Obviously I have an incomplete perspective on the genre, but it really is surprising how much cyberpunk had to develop before the ideas the Wachowski's come up with here really get put forward.

[all-yourn]

rorschach & "angels of porn" by nicole dollanganger [on youtube]

[helenvaughans]

it’s crazy how so much of our politics these days is about semantics and how we define certain words

[s1mul4crum]

LAINS SIMULATI0N

in the hyperreality that is the merging of the wired and the real world, lains every action posits her as a singular being, an omnipresent nothingness. this omnipresence is what deifies her in the hyperreality of the wired and real world but her simultaneous nothingness arises from her simulated origin, that is to say she is a copy without an origin. a programme isolate. she serves the simultaneous function of internalised neural pathways and externalised wires, that is to say internalised and externalised consciousness. lain is all and all is lain . the name ‘lain’ sounds similair to lane, a pathway that bridges the wired and the real world, and a pathway that diverges upon the split between ‘real’ lain and ‘wired’ lain . these polarising pathways converge together to create the singular entity that is lain. this polarisation encapsulates the internet ,wired lain incarnating the exposed unfiltered nature of the internet, whereas real lain incarnating the reservations and codes bestowed upon a young girl in her social context. the question of identity, of which lain is ‘real’ marks the event of hyperreality in the digital age, posed by a simulacrum.

lets all love lain! because love is a transcendent symbol in hyperreality

_though i do not know the full context this quote is reminiscent of lain_

[imaginationengine]

The Simulacra Machine II 🔥🦑🍏