{"id":22640,"date":"2012-11-01T15:45:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T15:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-precession-of-simulacra-by-jean-baudrillard\/"},"modified":"2012-11-01T15:45:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T15:45:16","slug":"the-precession-of-simulacra-by-jean-baudrillard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-precession-of-simulacra-by-jean-baudrillard\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Precession of Simulacra\u201d by Jean Baudrillard, Translated from English into American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/continentcontinent.cc\/index.php\/continent\/article\/viewArticle\/91'>\u201cThe Precession of Simulacra\u201d by Jean Baudrillard, Translated from English into American<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dropouthangoutspaceout.tumblr.com\/post\/34725219741\/the-precession-of-simulacra-by-jean-baudrillard\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">dropouthangoutspaceout<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dropouthangoutspaceout.tumblr.com\/post\/34725219741\">dropouthangoutspaceout<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Precession of Simulacra<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You think you understand the fucking real, man? Try this shit on for size:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth\u2014it is the truth which conceals that there is none.<br \/> The simulacrum is true.\u201d<br \/><em>Ecclesiastes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>BOOM<\/strong>. Fucking truth bomb. You\u2019re like, \u201cWhat\u2019s a simulacrum?\u201d It\u2019s Latin for copying shit. Like painting pictures of God, V-Card Mary, the Holy Fucking Ghost. Except that I\u2019m gonna be the first to say that maybe those copies end up turning into their own reality, one that you might even call \u201chyperreal.\u201d Oh, and I might also point out that this is because there is no God.<\/p>\n<p>Is that too much to handle? Then you\u2019re fucked, because right about now, I\u2019m gonna let you know that the quote up above from Ecclesiastes ISN\u2019T EVEN IN THE FUCKING BIBLE. The lesson here is to be skeptical or be a dumbass. Just because I wrote it doesn\u2019t mean shit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I had seen this intro before but I had no idea it was a full length essay hahaha<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Precession of Simulacra\u201d by Jean Baudrillard, Translated from English into American dropouthangoutspaceout: dropouthangoutspaceout: Precession of Simulacra You think you understand the fucking real, man? Try this shit on for size: \u201cThe simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth\u2014it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.\u201dEcclesiastes BOOM. Fucking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-5Ta","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}