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Valeria Lukyanova 2525 Responses
Last post: 6 months, 1 week ago | Thread started: Nov 9, 12, 8:23 a.m.
- dasmeteor
Freaky, disturbing, disgusting, sexy, hot?
Now :
http://www.facebook.com/ValeriaL…
http://vk.com/photos4926666
Before :
I have to say that I am totally impressed she looks like work of art to me.- Nov 9, 12, 8:23 a.m. – Permalink
- Continuity
It's sad, really. She was really pretty before all the body mods, I really can't understand why she would do this to herself.
I guess Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy really is becoming reality with every passing month.

- Dog-earNov 9, 12, 9:35 a.m. – Permalink
- lowimpakt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sim…
"Simulacra and Simulation" breaks the sign-order into 4 stages:
The first stage is a faithful image/copy, where we believe, and it may even be correct, that a sign is a "reflection of a profound reality" (pg 6), this is a good appearance, in what Baudrillard called "the sacramental order".
The second stage is perversion of reality, this is where we come to believe the sign to be an unfaithful copy, which "masks and denatures" reality as an "evil appearance—it is of the order of maleficence". Here, signs and images do not faithfully reveal reality to us, but can hint at the existence of an obscure reality which the sign itself is incapable of encapsulating.
The third stage masks the absence of a profound reality, where the simulacrum pretends to be a faithful copy, but it is a copy with no original. Signs and images claim to represent something real, but no representation is taking place and arbitrary images are merely suggested as things which they have no relationship to. Baudrillard calls this the "order of sorcery", a regime of semantic algebra where all human meaning is conjured artificially to appear as a reference to the (increasingly) hermetic truth.
The fourth stage is pure simulation, in which the simulacrum has no relationship to any reality whatsoever. Here, signs merely reflect other signs and any claim to reality on the part of images or signs is only of the order of other such claims. This is a regime of total equivalency, where cultural products need no longer even pretend to be real in a naïve sense, because the experiences of consumers' lives are so predominantly artificial that even claims to reality are expected to be phrased in artificial, "hyperreal" terms. Any naïve pretension to reality as such is perceived as bereft of critical self-awareness, and thus as oversentimental.

- Dog-earNov 9, 12, 10:20 a.m. – Permalink
- Frosty_spl
She probably doesn't look too weird in person sans crazy eye makeup and contacts.

- Dog-earNov 10, 12, 2:21 p.m. – Permalink












