[FRA:] Zizek & Koenigsberg on The Matrix, Human Batteries & the Symbolic Order

[Michael Rogers]

James Rovira wrote:
> Baudrillard's point in SS is that there is no longer an original.

"No longer" implies, however, that an original existed in the past -
Baudrillard's precession of the simulacra contrasts an authentic past
with the inauthentic present.

A more interesting (and hardly radical) position would be that history
itself is a simulacrum, so there is no simple authentic past against
which to compare the present.

Cheers,
Michael