Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:13:26 +0000
From: Kevin Turner <k.turner-AT-lancaster.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Matrix


Are these (real/unreal or real/imaginary) worlds parallel, or are they immanent?

For me, in Baudrillard's writing, the real and the unreal (hyperreal), the real
and the imaginary, the real and the virtual, etc., are not two distinct realms
existing alongside each other, but, rather like the matrix, exist (if I am
permitted such a term) within each other: that is, they are both the same and
yet different - i.e. the Matrix (the hyperreal) exists within the real (the
desert).

K

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Søren Pedersen wrote:

> > ============================================> > MORPHEUS
> >
> > "You have been living inside Baudrillard's vision, inside the map, not the
> > territory. This is Chicago as it exists today... The desert of the real."
> >
> > The Matrix
>
> Baud never believed in parallel worlds (whether real/unreal or
> real/imaginary) as in Borges or The Matrix!
>
> Soren