History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET June 2023 History (Shift-II)
For Baudrillard, the most important feature of postmodernity was:
AMetaphor
BPresence
CMemory
DSimulation ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Simulation — It was simulation, so the answer is simulation.
Explanation
★It was simulation, so the answer is simulation.
★Baudrillard's postmodernism theory holds that in the modern world what something represents has become more important than what it actually is.
★Thus the logo of a famous product comes to represent status or wealth, regardless of the physical product.
★He argued that modern societies were organised around the production of goods.
★Postmodern society, by contrast, is organised around simulation, the play of images and signs.
★So the most important feature of postmodernity for Baudrillard was simulation.
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