Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 02:03:01 -0500 (CDT) From: levy-AT-UTARLG.UTA.EDU Subject: Re: oj The simulacrum is TRUE: In other words, the actual guilt or innocence of Simson gets determined by how the trial gets acted out, specifically for the cameras. The hypervisibility of high-profile court cases makes justice ob-scene. The fact that the living room voyeur sees more than the jury serves to make him/her feel s/he sees everything. Nothing can't be seen, and so the image has no depth and therefore no meaning, except what is generated by this difference between juror/victim and TV audience/consumer. Whatever meaning can be generated depends on that difference. The simulacrum is TRUE: By definition, the system works, because all that is asked for is a show and a tell. We had a trial, we have a verdict: the (in)justice system works! There is no reality (what REALLY happened) being represented, because we can't see it, and that without image does not exist for us. Without a reality by which the verdict can be evaluated, the (in)justice binary implodes: The system is more just than justice because it serves its purpose altogether without any need or regard for reality. (I'm scaring myself with this stuff!) --Matthew Levy, University of Texas at Arlington ------------------
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