Ceci n’est pas un podcast :)

“This is not a pipe,” Magritte warned us, and yet, we keep mistaking the image for the thing itself. In this episode, we trace how screens have turned representation into reality, from Magritte’s illustrated illusions to Baudrillard’s simulacra and McLuhan’s media landscapes. Our phones decide what to show us, our feeds script how we feel, and even irony has become a kind of sincerity. Between memes, mirrors, and digital selves, we ask what happens when the copy outlives the original, and whether anything we see (or say) is still real. Maybe this isn’t a podcast at all, just another echo in a hall of mirrors whispering: Ceci n’est pas un podcast.

We discuss Baudrillard’s Simulacra theory quite a bit in this podcast, so here’s a little background:

Baudrillard tells us that we no longer copy reality, the model now creates it. The map comes before the territory; images no longer reflect the world, they produce it. In this hyperreal landscape, the difference between truth and imitation dissolves and that’s the terrain we explore in this episode: how the post replaces the experience, the meme replaces meaning, and performance becomes reality. Our screens no longer show us life; they script it, curate it, sell it back to us as “authentic.”

Enjoy the Podcast 🙂

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