
The Hyperreal Plague: How Girard & Baudrillard Explain the Pandemic with Geoffrey Shullenberger
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Igt, Soi Isn't Even Like Abstract Anymore, Ye?
The whole reality of this virus as we have experienced it has been sort of contaminated by its simulacrum, right? And so what that means is, i mean, this is like this kind of implosive effect. It's not ame logic of representation that we sort of think of classically rigt where you have some pre existing state of affairs and then you have some attempts to capture it representationally. Once that has been done, the reality that was simulated will never come into being. Because there is no longer any independence between the measuring rods and the things being measured.
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