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Understanding The Postmodern Simulacra And Simulation (Part 2 of 2)

In the first part of this article I’ve shortly covered the relation between simulacra and reality and a postmodern perspective on the becoming of images. It is here that I would like to approach the aesthetics of hyper reality in our daily lives. The Aesthetics of Hyper Reality All our comprehension moves through repetitive circles [...]

Understanding The Postmodern Simulacra And Simulation (Part 1 of 2)

Is reality substituted by signs of reality? What role would images play in this substitution? What is the role of aesthetics in all simulation? How does Jean Baudrillard’s simulacrum shape political and social life? These are some of the questions I will be addressing here. In the following I will mainly refer to Jean Baudrillard’s [...]

Jacque Caïn’s Theory on Psychoanalysis And Psychosomatics

Quite often, common knowledge associates the two distinct domains of psychoanalysis and psychosomatics submitting the latter to the first. In search of a clear distinction between the two areas of study, one often comes across Jacque Caïn’s distinction, which I will examine in this article. Psychosomatics, in one of its most simple and shortest definitions, [...]