Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 10:00:43 +0100
From: Erik S|rhaug <erik.sorhaug-AT-ped.uio.no>
Subject: Re: symbolic exchange and other things


Shemina Keshvani wrote:
> I' looking up the first two, because every three of these issues are of great interest> 

> 1. Is there a relationship between Baudrillard's 4 logics of objects and
> the 3 orders of simulacrum (perhaps there is even a 4th order???)?

Yes you might say there is a 4th order: the viral. When I say might, I'm just 
implicating that this order of simulacra not yet is what you can consider an 
academic term. Because to my nowledge B. is just making a hint of what it 
might be, when he says that the 3.order of simulacra; simulation, has now 
become true/real and therefor are no longer a theroretical consept, it killed 
itself (thats the logic of simulation). And then he foresees that at the next 
stage we will be off in space. We will all live in our little worlds, and 
lose our contact with the body, wich will become imaginary in the new age of 
digitalisation.....(Yes you may coment on this..)

> 2. Is the loss of the real a bad or a good thing (pardon my bluntness)?

The loss of the real is the start of the melancoly, I think B would say. Good 
or bad? It's beyond that!
> 
> -- 
Erik Sxrhaug 
stud. pedagogia (hovedfag) 
Institute of Educational Reasearch (PFI)
University of Oslo, Norway 
Homepage: http://www.uio.no/~esorhaug/index.html