Final paper

Avi studies Baudrillard in France.

I'm working on my final paper for the year, and it's a doozy. It even involves Jean Baudrillard, the man who inspired a lot of the Matrix movies through his exploration of the 'real' and the 'hyper-real'. It's really dense stuff, but I'm starting to get my mind around it. Once you get into it, it's like a drug.

Here's the first couple lines from my paper. If my TA runs my paper through Google, he'll find this and start scratching his head. But you know - a simulation of a Baudrillard essay would have made the late Jean Baudrillard really happy. He was into that. He passed away last month.

An excerpt from my paper:

Hayden White and Jean Baudrillard both posit theoretical assumptions regarding the representation of reality. In the essays “The Orders of Simulacra” and “Simulacra and Simulations”, Baudrillard offers the opposing binaries of reality and simulation in order to make his argument for the loss of ‘the real’. In “The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality”, Hayden White opts to employ the exploration of the presence or absence of narrative in order to discern the existence of ‘meaning’ within a given discourse. Both authors strive to outline a means of representing an objective reality based on ....