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.

  • cryptymythy [he/him, any]
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    3 months ago

    So is there like kevlar or something in there, don't tell me that's what the baby's for