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“The cessation of art is something that can only be accomplished when art disappears into its own excess. And that occasion, according to Baudrillard, has already happened. In fact, "art" disappeared a while back (When? Sometimes in the 70's, probably, when information technologies were electrified…” quote by Eldritch Priest
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““The cessation of art is something that can only be accomplished when art disappears into its own excess. And that occasion, according to Baudrillard, has already happened. In fact, "art" disappeared a while back (When? Sometimes in the 70's, probably, when information technologies were electrified and became the dominant way in which Western cultures mediated its self-expressions), and its sublimations into the everyday order of simulation was overlooked. Too busy watching reruns of I dream of Jeannie or betwitched I suppose. What is called "art" now is itself a continuous rerun, a rerun of the image of its own disappearance. But said another way, which I'm sure some would rather it be said (though it makes no difference) art is everywhere one and the same with the image of the everyday, if not actually, then potentially. Under these circumstances, because art and the reality that is supposed to set off aesthetic properties have lost their operational difference, unmusic is everywhere Music is not. However, according to the logic of simulation, Music is everywhere so unmusic is nowhere. Yet being everywhere is the same as being nowhere, therefore Music is nowhere, which makes unmusic everywhere. But this is hyperreality and hyperreality trucks no difference between the real and the unreal (artifice), the musical and the unmusical. Thus unmusic eschews Adorno's dialectical impasse to the extent that it is total nonsense, a byproduct of the hyperreal that supervenes a discourse of contradictions and paradoxes where everything is coming up signs.””

Eldritch Priest

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This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation.

In a hyperreal world, art dissolves into simulation, blurring the line between reality and representation, rendering both ubiquitous and meaningless.

In simple terms: Art becomes indistinguishable from simulation.

Key Takeaway

Question reality of art.

Themes

art simulation hyperreality meaning culture

Mood

analytical critical theoretical

Type

Art:1 Artist:0 Music:0 Too busy:0 Art Reality:0 Art Disappears:0 Art Disappeared:0 Cessation Art:0 Eschews Adorno:0

When to use this quote

  • art criticism
  • digital media studies
  • creative practice
  • cultural analysis
  • public discourse

Key Concepts

philosophy media theory critical theory

Questions to Reflect On

  • How does hyperreality affect your perception of art?
  • Can art retain meaning in a simulated world?
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