CRIM 4652 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Simulacrum, Hyperreality

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 4652
• Professor: Tuulia Law

Document Summary

The tropes and narratives of who the real victim and offender is. Smart: the power of legal discourse: people"s narratives and experiences is fit and cut away to make it appropriate for the courtroom context. ^-standard stories and tropes: become indistinguishable from truths: they are perceived as credible in court. A powerful site in which knowledge and experience are validated or discredited. Stimulation threatens and obscures the difference between the real and the imaginary. We can use his ideas to understand fake things around us. His hyperreality is described as a hyper real world composed of stimulation: a society based entirely on performance. Perception: law is a way to pursue and find the truth. Baudrillard argues that we are living in a stimulated contrived environment. The danger of simulation is that in this process of simulation, the reality can become indistinguishable from simulacrum. Contrasts simulation to representation: this is a representation of the world.