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11-01-2005, 02:00 PM
Post originally by comrade pointdexter at 2005-11-01 13:00:14
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The directors of The Matrix didn't coin "The Desert of the Real", they took it from French poststructural theorist Jean Baudrillard, best known to Matrix viewers as author of "Simulacra and Simulation".

Sorry. I couldn't help myself.
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11-01-2005, 05:00 PM
Post originally by Ian Sokoliwski at 2005-11-01 16:00:12
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No problem - I'm always happy to have my assumptions challenged and corrected :) Thanks for the clarification!
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11-01-2005, 08:36 PM
Post originally by Zach at 2005-11-01 19:36:45
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I thought that Slavoj Zizek was the one. The chain continues...

http://www.lacan.com/desertreal.htm
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11-02-2005, 01:24 PM
Post originally by comrade pointdexter at 2005-11-02 12:24:41
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Zizek makes use of the term, but Baudrillard coined it first, in 1983, in his "Ecstasy of Communication" essay. But all of those PoMo theorists use each other's terms in slapdash fashion.