Thus Japan itself changed as a concept from ultra-nationalistic to toleration of the west and the incorporation of western traditions and businesses With the customer base in mind, KFC offers promotions such as tote bags … Japan is now its fastest growing market. Similar to Baudrillard, the advertising and marketing of an object such as the soft drink Coca-Cola allows for no difference in quality for every drink produced. This makes each object have the same qualities as the next model of production with the same features, qualities, accessories, colours and so forth.
Difference would therefore only occur at the level of the same for each model. This burdens the concept of the product in order to make it a viable commodity. Successful completion of this makes the product into a marketable commodity where commoditisation of the product takes place making it into a simulacrum of the same. These concepts are thus not in a state of fixity but mobility as they are interacted with not only with the philosopher but with everyone that interacts with their concepts.
For a full explanation see ibid, pp. Any virtual is lost as it is deemed an error or mistake which then has to be corrected if any perceivable difference occurs within a product such as pixelation problems on an LCD screen, glitches on a game, or pick ups not working on an electric guitar.
Each company puts its product through quality testing in order to eradicate any perceivable differences and maintain the same quality within all its models. Returning to the concept of Japan, the commoditisation of Japan itself would limit other definitions from emerging such as the advertising of a specific conception of Japan to tourists, through festivals, shrines, temples, gardens, museums, and what to look for in each region like Odori Park in Sapporo, Hokkaido.
This conception of Japan would be based around the simulacrum of the same as the simulacrum of difference itself would again not be considered as a rival Every other opinion would therefore be not as important as the current definition is enforced by government backing as the cherry blossom is the national flower of Japan itself.
Therefore it may seem like there is little room for the simulacrum of difference in marketing and commoditisation as the simulacrum of the same always negates it. However, Deleuze and Guattari discuss pedagogy as a way of finding singularity again in order to combat this simulacrum of the same. This will be discussed in the next section with reference to saving the soul from commoditisation.
This means that the soul is immortal, for Plato, as there is an eternal self-changing of soul escaping from body after death to a further entrapment within another body. It is not possible for this to be destroyed or come to be, or the whole heaven and every sort of coming to be would stop dead in confusion; they would never find a way of restarting the processes of change. Appearances of objects would only exist in a temporary state and then evaporate into non existence when the state stops changing.
For instance, the body for Plato would be that of only a temporary state which would then cease to exist when the body 94 Plato, Phaedo 72EB in Chappell , p.
This would mean that the soul could be affected and changed when it came into contact with other relations within the body. Therefore the soul could be destructible as this temporary change would eventually cease, meaning that like the body, the soul would cease to be. If the soul did not exist a priori and was able of being affected externally then the forms themselves and the whole of knowledge would collapse into chaos.
In using recollection, an individual would be recalling previous knowledge already learned in a past life. As Eric J. However, when they were going to play piano they would learn it faster then someone else who had not played piano in a past life because they would simply be recollecting the previous musical structures they had learnt. Knowledge itself is proved to be a priori as there has always been knowledge of objects in the world.
As the soul is a carrier of this a priori knowledge with each entrapment in a body, this also proves that the soul is a priori and exists before its attachment to a body. The soul therefore cannot be a simulacrum and dissoluble like the body but must be immortal and divine like the forms themselves Plato warns that when pleasure and pain are at their most intense every soul imagines this object of pain and pleasure to be the plainest and truest.
In this state each pleasure and pain is like a nail which rivets the soul to the body. This would mean that the individual would have chosen the simulacrum of pain or pleasure over the form.
For Plato, a temporary pain is not the true form of pain, in order to gain the true a priori the individual would have to experience several pains in order to recollect the form itself. The soul thus becomes like the body so it is never likely to be pure at departure from it as the individual would have chosen the simulacrum rather than recollect the form itself.
This would remove Earthly attachments from the soul as any fear of death or the pain would rivet an Earthly attachment to the soul. In detaching these from the soul then the soul can escape the body freely and join the eternal forms. In The Phaedrus, the soul upon leaving the body is compared to a charioteer with winged horses.
These winged horses guide the soul upwards into the heavens. The highest level they can fly is to the forms themselves where the soul can join them and look upon each form itself. In reaching this highest level the soul will be free from any worldly harm or suffering and thus attaining R. The other levels only have varying degrees of glimpses of the forms with the worst having no glimpse only to be dragged straight back into another body.
In each reincarnation an individual will be incarnated with a different job where they will be able to live their most virtuous life and join the forms or continue this circular cycle of incarnations within different bodies. Therefore the individual should lead a virtuous life in order to reach the forms and free themselves from all worldly suffering and evils. The soul as simulacrum For Deleuze, the simulacrum takes on a positive role again reversing the Platonic role of the forms. In contrast to Plato, the soul must not be confused with an identity as this makes all identities into a resemblance of the same.
Using twins as an example, both twins would have their own unique differences each with their own shade of hair colour, eye colour and so forth. Aquinas fixes two problems that he observed; the way in which the soul is to be reunited with the body and the reunion with the same body. This proves to be problematic as each twin has different shades of hair with one perhaps having chestnut brown with the other having golden brown hair.
Uniqueness made into the same rids each twin of their own identity making the twins into one generalised individual. When this is applied to the soul, in generalising each difference in variances of identities makes the soul have a resemblance of the same if the soul was compared to a bodily identity.
The eternal return of difference allows for the soul to remain independent of an identity as difference always returns and never the same. This means that the soul would be in a state of becoming with the body itself yet not allowing for recollection to make the becoming of the soul into a generalised form of the soul.
Difference always returns in this generalised form of the soul because the individual would have confused difference the simulacrum with resemblance. In recollecting, as in the Platonic model, they would have predetermined the soul in joining it with a bodily identity thus mistaking resemblance for the simulacrum. Zizek is mistaken as the body is not virtual but actual. The body is in the realm of the actual as it can be experienced and remains at the level of perception and senses.
An individual can quite rightly state this is an arm, leg, or torso that they perceive. However, the soul is virtual as it does not exist within the actual. The individual cannot perceive the soul in experience and state this or that perception is the soul.
The soul is incorporeal and immaterial, which is full of intensities and of becoming. These intensities are explained like amplitude within the body at varying degrees such as the different intensive waves that move through the body. This virtual side of the body is called the body without organs The body without organs is therefore a way to debase the notions of organs and scientific concepts attached to the body in order to regain a notion of the body which cannot be conceptualised.
Thus the body does not have organs, but thresholds or levels. These various molecular occurrences within the body have a different intensity. For instance, when an individual breathes, each breath itself would vary in intensity as there would be a different amount of air molecules being inhaled each time.
The soul is therefore determined by its expression or actualisation in an actual body. This means there is a reciprocal determination of virtual soul becoming and actual body Being. Like the Platonic model, the soul may be seen as a prisoner of the body. However, with the soul working through the body the combinations of virtual and actual are never singular individual entities as both are indistinguishable from each other.
For Aristotle, if one cuts the body they would be cutting the soul. Daniel W. Smith London: Continuum, p. A full discussion of counter-actualisation is beyond the scope of this dissertation so a brief outline in relation to a Deleuzian notion of the soul will be made instead.
The eternal return rests not on memory or recollection of the forms but on active forgetting and waste. In contrast to Plato, the individual must not use recollection as this attributes a singular sensation which does not allow for new experiences to occur such as the individual attributing pleasure towards a Badiou p.
A Badiouian reading of the eternal return can also be made where the eternal return for Badiou would be parallel to Plato which would lead to a subversion of the Deleuzian eternal return. The attribution of a singular feeling to a particular object, person or place is negative as this could lead to resentment. For instance, an individual resenting mathematics as they find it difficult. Each time the individual has to think about mathematics they would resent it.
This resentment stops them from experiencing mathematics itself in order to learn how to overcome the logical problems by using the correct mathematical equations. For Deleuze, this resentment leads to individuals acting like tyrants who become enslaved through their own resentment.
In order to stop them from being enslaved an individual has to actively forget each time they come to a think about that particular object, person or place thereby they actively affirm it instead of negating it. The individual would have to actively forget their resentment of maths in order to positively learn the mathematical equations. Active forgetting is therefore necessary in order for there to be new experiences and happiness in the present. An individual who cannot actively forget cannot be happy and instead may resent the past which in turn may lead to a future dominated by resentment.
A selection like the Platonic model still has to occur where an individual has to affirm and exclude as there has to be a singular choice made in order to combat the prevailing of the simulacrum of difference. In contrast to this Platonic selection, selection is based on all the See previous example at p.
Unlike Plato, Deleuze does not have a clear guideline for moral actions instead it is left up to the individual to choose their own path through an event. This does not lead to a hedonistic or chaotic ethics where the ethical individual is made into a libertine or serial killer. An individual becomes like an artist through their own personal struggles with life itself; not to sense the negative but the positive in life.
The bodily wants and desires are transformed and reinvented when a counter-actualisation of an event occurs that alters its sense. The counter-actualisation of events is therefore, a positive intensification and a positive affirmation of an event. For Nietzsche amor fati is an affirmation of life which overcomes nihilism where it actively selects what to say yes to.
In this selection it wipes out all resentiment but at the same time retains an element of resentment in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Zarathustra feels a complete satisfaction with life since all things are interconnected; joy and suffering are both inseparable from each other. Hollingdale, Harmondsworth; Penguin, p. The attack itself can be seen as a wound upon the commuters who were at the train stations that suffered from the gas. Nothing comes of hatred.
Even though he was living in his house at Oiso which was two hours south of Tokyo, the after effects of the event fascinated him. For whatever reasons. Eventually I stopped making judgements altogether. The mere thought fills me with dread. Therefore morality does not become chaotic through the loss of the Platonic forms as the counter actualisation of an event allows for a positive affirmation by the individual working through the wound that they suffered in order to constantly overcome it.
Individuals in this instance would be counter-actualising effects caused by the gas such as loss of sight, memory loss, and insomnia. This would be different from resentment or revenge as the individuals have to constantly deal with effects of the gas. This constant interaction allows for them to overcome the effects, as shown in the examples of Toshiaki Toyoda and Masaru Yuasa, they had managed to overcome the negative effects of the gas and had become stronger individuals through constantly overcoming the ordeal through their everyday work as subway attendants.
Overcoming the simulation of the soul In order to combat the simulacrum of the same Deleuze and Guattari suggest pedagogy as an alternative where conceptual difference can occur again. Horrible creatures, they have no eyes and feed upon rotting flesh. Each model is a mask as the original object is lost due to its excessive reproduction. This is not negative as the eternal return reverses the effect of the dominant signifier.
For instance, Deleuze and Guattari , p. First, a universal encyclopaedia of the concept, second pedagogy and third commercialisation of the concept which is called commercial professional training Deleuze B , p. There cannot be a universal sign due to repetition as there would always be a different interaction in drinking it each time.
When an individual drinks Coca- Cola one day they may enjoy it, then another they dislike it and the next they completely hate it.
This shows that the eternal return removes the basis for a universal grounding which the commodity is signified to do in an advert as each repetition ensures difference to return and not the same.
This again shows the importance of the reversal of Platonism as recollection would attach a singular sensation towards a brand of soft drink. However, the constant interaction by the individual would always lead to a different signification. In relation to the soul, an individual would be told of a specific definition.
This concept would then be in a state of becoming as it would be discussed and interacted with differently each time. This shows the constant becoming of the conception of the soul and the importance of pedagogy. This would completely change the meaning attached to the definition.
This tonal change would have a different meaning attached to the concept in emphasising that point such as a statement the soul is NOT attached to the body would have a different meaning if it was stated as the soul is not attached to the body. This emphasis on the not, in the first instance, would force a conception which would not be permissive of other arguments than the second instance, where no emphasis is given to the not.
Each individual would attribute a different meaning to the concept depending on what was emphasised. This shows how pedagogy is again at work, as the individual teaches themselves through their interaction with a specific definition of the soul V, ed. Hong and Edna H. Hong Princeton; Princeton University Press, p. This constant interaction ensures a becoming as it lacks any finality. Even if an individual attempted to state that the soul was X, this would only be temporal and not final, as the individual would return to discuss their definition which would then make them interact with it.
However, this becoming itself is limited when a temporary conception takes place as the possible world the virtual becoming of the concept is expressed through real language or speech. The concept which had previously only existed virtually exists in an actual conception Everything stops dead for a moment, everything freezes in its place — and then the whole process will begin over again. Lane London: Continuum, p. This singularity has the possibility of being burdened by its consideration as a viable commodity.
If it is accepted and deemed marketable then commoditisation of the concept takes place which only allows for a simulacrum of the same to take place. Deleuze and Guattari present pedagogy as one way to reintroduce the simulacrum of difference. This shows that Deleuze and Guattari are not alone in their search for singularity but also that pedagogy should not be taken as the only absolute answer as there exists many others. With the simulacrum there is a loss of an original 2.
This loss entails a loss of dialectics, teleology, and a teleological end 3. Commoditisation of an object replaces the loss of the original 4. With an object turned into a commodity it is no longer a Real object but a simulation of an object 5. There is a search for singularity in order to combat this commoditisation 6. This singularity allows for an individual to create without the oppression of a norm or form 7. The soul cannot be fully differentiated from the body 8. The soul must resist any bodily identity being attributed to it 9.
Difference is only in a modulated form The soul must not be lost by becoming a simulacrum through cloning The eternal return of difference ensures a constant becoming and temporal identities in experience To give just one example, video game technology and film are new rhetorics, simulations, and versions of contemporary war, all competing with each other in their representations of what happened and is happening.
They seduce us into reconceptualizing the scale and form of what humans associate with war and what actions they take to conduct war. Knowledge of WWII for the next generation of college students is much more likely to come from the film Saving Private Ryan than it is from a textbook.
In fact, Saving Private Ryan the film is likely to be dated as the source for what happened at Normandy in the very new future as a new Call of Duty-immersive WWII video game is due out in The video game series Call of Duty has consistently outsold the top-grossing films of the s through immersing gamers in highly-realistic recreations of battles past and present. They also have another debatably pernicious effect. They have the overwhelming capacity to associate conflict with the screen: that which can be viewed and, increasingly, manipulated by the viewer.
War viewed through and conducted via screen becomes more real than actual war to the point that warfare becomes a series of manipulating screen images itself. The ubiquity and popularity of these virtualized simulations of warfare as entertainment have long convinced the military that they are the future of military training.
The military is shifting its physical training of soldiers for physical wars, to virtual training for physical wars. The Department of Defense has invested enormous amounts of money into virtual reality and gaming to simulate conditions soldiers may face in a virtual battlefield. In the book War Play, Corey Mead quotes a DoD official developing next-gen war simulators commenting on who is more prepared for war.
Preparation for virtualized war is preparation for asymmetrical drone warfare from above against an Afghani farmer with a gun on the ground. War preparation is nothing short of predetermined annihilation from afar and above. It gives the technologically inferior opponent no option other than vaporization from the sky. It is punishment without retribution. It is the perfect form of warfare in a neoliberal age that takes overwhelmingly punitive action against non-state actors who resist the Western imposition of the neoliberal client-state.
Ramifications for Western-Civ Type Courses In any university culture that is pressured by market forces to emphasize vocational curricula over humanities and liberal arts education, there is a very short time in which college educators of the latter fields have the attention of a classroom of, for example, STEM majors.
It is morally imperative to make time for understanding current events and modern wars and the ways they are shaped by new media. Western Civilization courses can conceivably cover the last years of the human experience up to the present. There needs to be a discussion about a remarkable shift in warfare, in only the last 50 or so of those years, where the human risk, relationship, and involvement in hot war has been replaced with a morally distantiated screen culture that is more concerned with machine technology and war as film and video game entertainment and less concerned with human violence.
Certainly hot war needs to be taught in a U. However, there needs to be a place in the broader, general Western-Civ type curriculum that talks about the profound shift away from hot war into our present era of dead war via screen. Three times a week my students may spend 50 minutes learning about the broad ideas, -isms, and conflicts that have shaped the early modern West and its conquered lands up to the present; then they leave the classroom to probably take three more STEM or vocational classes later that day and so on for the rest of their undergraduate years.
Baudrillard found such a reliance to be problematic. But this too is problematic for Baudrillard. Students may leave the classroom feeling that they are somehow more aware of what has occurred because of images they associate with an event, because somehow they have a new consciousness of events that previously did not exist for them. Henceforth, it is the map that precedes the territory—precession of simulacra—it is the map that engenders the territory and if we were to revive the fable today, it would be the territory whose shreds are slowly rotting across the map.
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Their aim is Promethean: world-wide application, continuous expansion, liberation of indeterminate energy desire is part of the utopias belonging to this order of simulacra. Their aim is maximum operationality, hyperreality, total control.
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