> I’d recommend Baudrillards work on hyperreality.

Any specific piece of writing you can recommend? I tried reading Simulacra and Simulation (English translation) a while ago and I found it difficult to follow.

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therobots927 4 days ago | parent [-]

I would actually recommend the YouTube channel Plastic Pills. This is a great video to start with: https://youtu.be/S96e6TdJlNE?si=gSVzXyyBq7t_q0Xp

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tucnak 4 days ago | parent [-]

Name-dropping Baudrillard based on Youtube videos is real rich... in irony.

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therobots927 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

In case you didn’t notice the parent comment specifically said Baudrillards writing was hard to follow. This channel is run by a philosophy PhD who explains his work. You think he’s misrepresenting baudrillards work I’m guessing?

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tucnak 3 days ago | parent [-]

It's just funny; philosophy YouTube is a simulacrum in its own right. On a different note, I don't think Baudrillard is worth reading in 2025. I would rather recommend Mark Fisher, but then again it's all gravy, baby. To call all this pop literature "philosophy," especially post-Wittgenstein is a bit silly after all.

	▲	therobots927 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah I’m gonna read Fisher’s book. I’ve watched a couple of his lectures on YouTube. I don’t really have the mental bandwidth outside work to get really into nitty gritty philosophy. But stuff that’s digestible and helps me contextualize this twilight zone timeline we’re in is nice. I don’t know what good it does to go down the rabbit hole when the vast majority of people aren’t joining you.

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