Simulation: A painter draws a horse that is so real that it cannot be distinguished from a hourse

Arguments:

• During the media “explosion of events”, any event has a “contra-positive”
• Every event is staged (eg. war is reduced to TikTok, Instagram, or news)
• The line between marketing, news and truth is impossible to discern (eg. Sylvester Stallone is in the hall of fame of boxing)
• Reality becomes the hyper-real
• The signs of disaster are pictures to be consumed
• The media create copies: non-events that are easily digested
• We become complicit in disinformation campaigns, we enjoy deception
• We dictate the screen, are the editor, and subscriber
• If we search long enough we will believe in any event as truth

Notes

• Did you lose contact with reality?
• Isn’t writing already a virtual reality?
• Everything conceals nothing

Introduction from “Then and Now“

• What is the Real?
• Abstracts for exchange
• “The Shift”
• The recycling of lost ideas (Jogging instead of walking)