Baudrillar, from “The Precession of Simulacra” 1. A Borges fable addresses a map that mirrors another empire or territory. a. The simulation is an imitation of a substance. It is a model of a something that exists outside of reality. b. The map is only a representation of what is real; it is not real itself. c. The map is a representational image of what was real. The place is no longer real; it is hyperreal. 2. The age of simulation, or the imitation of the real world over time, has begun. a. Simulations relate to making meaning of signs. b. Signs are a substitute for reality. 3. “To dissimulate is to feign not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one hasn’t” (1558). a. If a person were to
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The real is no longer real. 2. This imaginary world is neither true or false. Derrida, from Of Grammatology 1. Three writing styles represent three different stages of a society’s development. a. Savage people are able to draw objects. b. Barbaric people can depict signs and words. c. Civilized people have an alphabet system intact. 2. The belief about the last writing style utilizes the ethnocentric idea that a society of people who can write are intellectually superior to a society who cannot write. a. The concept of writing in the world can be traced in our world’s history. b. It is logical to assume that those who can write and produce ideas can full express themselves and capture the history of their society. c. The phoneticization of ideas in writing makes tracing history possible. d. Societies with writing value writing and trace the development of writing in meaningful ways. 3. Writing is also a sense, in which signs are used to express knowledge. a. The usage of these signs can be systematically studied. b. The relationship between science and writing is based on the concept of the sign and allows individuals to understand how writing has developed over …show more content…
While in the one sense, Plato condemned writing and play so much, but he spent a significant amount of time writing and playing. a. This contradiction found his way into writing. b. This contradiction was the result of the diction in his writing. c. The ideas presented by play here found their way into the theories of Rousseau and Saussure. 5. In a sense, Plato’s philosophies devalued writing. a. His ideas devalued generalized types of writing. b. In addition, his ideas devalued contradictions of logic written. c. Literary works were also devalued for their content. 6. The grammar of writing and language can shed light on arguments made within the text or “through the words” (1731). a. Dialectics and linguistics are concerned with ideas larger than words. b. They also focus on discovering the truth. c. Dialectics and grammar are logically constructed. 7. “Just as Socrates supplements and replaces the father, as we have seen, dialectics supplements and replaces the impossible noeisi (intelligence, understanding” (1732). a. Writing opens itself to the senses. b. Writing can embody the truth. c. The disappearance of the good-father-capital-sun is contained in generalized
The real is no longer real. 2. This imaginary world is neither true or false. Derrida, from Of Grammatology 1. Three writing styles represent three different stages of a society’s development. a. Savage people are able to draw objects. b. Barbaric people can depict signs and words. c. Civilized people have an alphabet system intact. 2. The belief about the last writing style utilizes the ethnocentric idea that a society of people who can write are intellectually superior to a society who cannot write. a. The concept of writing in the world can be traced in our world’s history. b. It is logical to assume that those who can write and produce ideas can full express themselves and capture the history of their society. c. The phoneticization of ideas in writing makes tracing history possible. d. Societies with writing value writing and trace the development of writing in meaningful ways. 3. Writing is also a sense, in which signs are used to express knowledge. a. The usage of these signs can be systematically studied. b. The relationship between science and writing is based on the concept of the sign and allows individuals to understand how writing has developed over …show more content…
While in the one sense, Plato condemned writing and play so much, but he spent a significant amount of time writing and playing. a. This contradiction found his way into writing. b. This contradiction was the result of the diction in his writing. c. The ideas presented by play here found their way into the theories of Rousseau and Saussure. 5. In a sense, Plato’s philosophies devalued writing. a. His ideas devalued generalized types of writing. b. In addition, his ideas devalued contradictions of logic written. c. Literary works were also devalued for their content. 6. The grammar of writing and language can shed light on arguments made within the text or “through the words” (1731). a. Dialectics and linguistics are concerned with ideas larger than words. b. They also focus on discovering the truth. c. Dialectics and grammar are logically constructed. 7. “Just as Socrates supplements and replaces the father, as we have seen, dialectics supplements and replaces the impossible noeisi (intelligence, understanding” (1732). a. Writing opens itself to the senses. b. Writing can embody the truth. c. The disappearance of the good-father-capital-sun is contained in generalized