RHETOR 20 Lecture 9: R20 Section 3 02.14.2017
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Dissimulate - feign not to have what you have. Person with a lot of prestige feign they don"t have a lot of power or influence. Hide something that is present, disvowing something. Simulate - pretend to have what you do not have. If you want to fake illness, you come up with symptoms you do not actually experience. Whether you know it is simulation or dissumulation is not important. Gun robbery: does not matter if the gun is real or not, what b finds interesting is that we treat it as representation. Crowd photograph at trump"s inauguration as put out by the. Simulacra - something that does not exist or does not exist anymore. Similar frustration of sontag; instead of thinking about hermeneutics, focus on form. Now asking if it is true or if it is real - but how it works.
