Hyperreality In Jean Baudrillard's Poem

This particular term ‘hyperreality’ is a very critical postmodernist term which means – an inability of consciousness to segregate reality from a simulation of reality, especially in technologically advanced Postmodern societies. Hyperreality is seen as a condition in which what is real and what is unreal are flawlessly muddled together.

It is a concept or a condition in which reality and fiction are mixed together so that there is no clear distinction between where one ends and the other begins. The semiotic concept of “hyperreality” was coined by the French socialist Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) in his book entitled Simulacra and Simulation (1981), he defined the term as “the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal” (343). Hyperreality is an image without a reference. Baudrillard considers hyperreality as more than combining the “real” to the symbol it represents: it comprises producing a symbol or a lot of signifiers which illustrate something that does not exist in real world.

Baudrillard advocates that our world has been replaced by a copy world where we look for simulated stimuli only, he uses the example cited by Jorge Luis Borges in “on exactitude in science” of a society created by cartographers

in fact, Hyperreality is the inability to distinguish the reality from a simulation of reality especially in technologically advanced societies (Zompetti.j.p&Moffit .m.a). On the other hand, the theory of Baudrillard step forward McLuhan’s medium theory: there is not only an implosion of the message in the medium, there is, in the same movement, the implosion of the medium itself in the real, the implosion of the medium and of the real in sort of hyperreal nebula, in which even the definition and distinct action of the medium can no longer be determined