Anglista2008 Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
Hell of a trouble with Baudrillard's way of thinking :(
Howdy,
If someone could please tell me what the guy wants to say here, I'd be most grateful:
Los Angeles is encricled by these "imaginary stations" which feed reality, reality energy, to a town whose mystery is precisely that it is nothing more than a network of endless, unreal circulation , - a town of fabulous proportions, but without space or dimensions. As much as electical and nuclear power stations , as much a film studios , this town, which is nothing more than an immense script and a perpetual motion machine , needs this old imaginary makeup of childhood signals and faked phantasms for its sympathetic nervous systems.
Thank you
If someone could please tell me what the guy wants to say here, I'd be most grateful:
Los Angeles is encricled by these "imaginary stations" which feed reality, reality energy, to a town whose mystery is precisely that it is nothing more than a network of endless, unreal circulation , - a town of fabulous proportions, but without space or dimensions. As much as electical and nuclear power stations , as much a film studios , this town, which is nothing more than an immense script and a perpetual motion machine , needs this old imaginary makeup of childhood signals and faked phantasms for its sympathetic nervous systems.
Thank you
Top answer
I think he sees LA as virtual reality, in the modern sense - figuratively speaking, of course.
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I think he sees LA as virtual reality, in the modern sense - figuratively speaking, of course.
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All he is saying is that LA is fake. A hyperreality... people think its real but it is nothing more than a social fabrication.
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He doesn't seem to approve of it.
The city government has spent a lot of real money on something whick is unreal.
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The city government has spent a lot of real money on something whick is unreal.
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It sounds like something from Calvino's Invisible Cities.
The words evoke images through obscure metaphors without saying much of anything in the sense of a logical proposition which has a truth value. mystery, unreal, imaginary, faked. It's more like poetry to my ear.
CJ
The words evoke images through obscure metaphors without saying much of anything in the sense of a logical proposition which has a truth value. mystery, unreal, imaginary, faked. It's more like poetry to my ear.
CJ
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CalifJimwithout saying much of anythingI don't know Calvino, but I certainly agree with the rest of your characterization of the excerpt.
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You must be so ashamed!