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Non-Delphi: Postmodernism, Transformers: ROTF and Baudriallard
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– The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth--it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true. (Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation) I've just watched Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and it got me thinking. It's perhaps the most post-modern movie I've seen to date. T:ROTF isn't so much a movie as a string of soundbites, stereotypes and cliches arranged into a 2.5 hour trailer for a movie you'll never get to see, because it was never made. You turn up for the product the advertisement is selling, but it turns out the whole product was ad. There's ...
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