{"id":210,"date":"2008-12-03T21:58:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T04:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/210"},"modified":"2008-12-03T21:58:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T04:58:40","slug":"the-economy-of-the-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2008\/12\/03\/the-economy-of-the-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"the economy of the sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/164\">A few months ago<\/a> I made the not very original observation that the era we are leaving\u00a0(from Reagan to Bush II, from junk bonds to synthetic cdo&#8217;s) was partly shaped by the idea that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/dept\/HPS\/Baudrillard\/Baudrillard_Simulacra.html\">simulation<\/a> could supplant reality. <\/p>\n<p>(An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.umass.edu\/~immerman\/play\/opinion05\/WithoutADoubt.html\">infamous example<\/a> from 2004: &#8221;We&#8217;re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Well, John Lanchester actually did some of the hard work of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/atlarge\/2008\/11\/10\/081110crat_atlarge_lanchester\">explaining what this means<\/a> in the New Yorker. <\/p>\n<p>(Also, yes, I&#8217;m a month behind on the New Yorker. I&#8217;ve read there&#8217;s a very exciting election coming. I hope Obama wins!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago I made the not very original observation that the era we are leaving\u00a0(from Reagan to Bush II, from junk bonds to synthetic cdo&#8217;s) was partly shaped by the idea that simulation could supplant reality. (An infamous example from 2004: &#8221;We&#8217;re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}