Was typing out some Media Analyzation about HoL while waiting for my therapist but she showed up sooner than expected and the draft didn’t save 😔 once again saved from being unwell about media by therapy
Whatever I’m retyping it no amount of therapy will save me from being unwell about media anyways I had to research Baudrillard’s precession of simulacra for an art history class and it was around the same time I was reading HoL and I could write countless essays about the House and the various framing devices of the book being really perfect mirrors of the stages of simulacra
Like the way the house begins as an impossibility - because how could a house be 1/4th of an inch bigger on the inside? It has to be a mistake, a miscalculation, some sort of human error, but it cannot be Real - is the introduction of the first layer of simulacra. The Unreal being introduced as a replacement of the Real. And then slowly as the characters all come to grips with the fact that what they’re living in is in fact real, that’s when it turns to the second stage, the Unreal actively replacing the Real. Does this thing have a read more function. Anyway I would love to write specifically about the third stage of the Unreal becoming the Real entirely, and the Real no longer existing (therefore becoming Unreal) bc the unraveling of the plot during the latter half of the book I think so perfectly captures that notion of the world and what we know as factual and Real becoming entirely subsumed by impossibility.
And the fact that there’s like so many different narrators / characters all experiencing the simulacrum in different points GOD it’s so good
Anyway just some silly thoughts from my brain I really need to reread the book as well but if anyone wants to burn their brain cells to a crisp read baudrillard’s precession of simulacra with me