RHETOR 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hyperreality, Simulacrum, Hermeneutics
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Fish/ mailloux/ sontag - question of interpretation and translation. Eco/ baudrillard/ jameson - question of hyperreality and simulacra. Sontage 64, eco 67, baudrillard 70s, eco 1983, jameson 90s, hayle 2000. Communications changing as time goes on : account for different types of phenomenon. Jameson: (18) simulacrum as copy for which no original has ever existed. Approximation: imply that something is lost, imperfection. Translation as metaphor for interpretation: takes time, partial, process of going from x to y. Even when authors give input on interpreting nuclear treaty, still something lost. Lock us in because of focus on content (what does it mean) Interpretation drives after meaning, reduce/ flatter/ impoverish the object. Need to recover senses - see/ hear/ feel more > function of criticism to show how it is what it is. Ex. women"s march: rather than asking what it means (which reduces the conversation) but who went, what did it do, etc.
