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Originally Posted by simulacrality
I too have heard that Slavoj Žižek is a great read - i started reading Bauldrillard and his theory about simulation, simulacrum and "the real" or the copy - kind of interested in time travel as an way of talking about academia - and a friend told me that Žižek is "the man"! I must read and report back.
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I had to read Baudrillard in my course on literary criticism, wherein we used Baudrillard's theories as a framework in analyzing Don DeLillo's
White Noise. I also read more of him in a class I took on travel writing, because so much of good travel writing (and this extends to food writing as well) attempts to capture the authentic experience--and it begs the question of how does one truly capture an authentic experience with the written word--is it even possible? Thus, Baudrillard provides a good framework there are well. Definitely recommended.