The Simulcara Continues
The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth - it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.
If there is one thing that I have yet to grasp in this age of bits of 0’s and 1’s is that one does not have to horde things like those of the past. It is not so much that I am pack rat whatever that actually means. See 90% of the stuff that I have laying around our apartment I will use at least once a month. Still between the mementos my mother keeps combine with all the extra stuff I have laying around our apartment can become quite cramp at times. So I have been spending so much time throwing things away at least four boxes a month. In the process I just grab a box and throw it out because if I look in the box it is only give me more excuses on why this or that should not be taking to the trash heap. But to prove my point that most of the stuff that I have in storage I actually I use I stumbled across an old Wired Magazine. It is the 11/12 2003 edition the one with Uma Thurman on the cover see pic below for a better reference or click here.
There is an excellent article on the great PKD Phillip K Dick and how so many of his writings have become motion pictures. Of course of all this PKD mania started with the movie Blade Runner, which is based on his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The rights were sold for only $2500 though that was 1977 so if we take inflation and things into consideration the sting is lessen somewhat. The point basically is this Blade Runner is a cultural icon and if not definitely a Sci-Fi cult classic and all of this was started through independent film. Nowadays PKD works all over the screen Minority Report, Total Recall and Paycheck among others. Movies that are backed by big studios and big bucks, so does a small time director or small movie studio today stand the chance of attaining the rights of any work by PKD lets see.
As for film deals, the estate has become increasingly choosy. "We sort of feel like we have to protect Philip K. Dick's brand image.” So we set very, very high prices, and we'll only do business with people who are established. It's ironic, because the films that created the phenomenon started with options that were granted to struggling filmmakers. Today, we shun people like that."
Russel Galen literary agent who now represents the estate of PKD
Of course I am not suggesting that they have a clearance of PKD material but if a young upstart filmmaker came to the table with a great idea based on the work PKD and could put up some of if not all of the money, why deny him the chance?
Then of course with Hollywood balking about its disappointing box office results maybe the works of PKD and others especially anything from Marvel or DC comics not be adapted into movies. Hollywood needs to get off his high horse and bring in some fresh blood new writers, new directors take some chances so what if the movie flops most of them are flopping nowadays any way.
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. There is a proliferation of myths of origin and signs of reality; of second-hand truth, objectivity and authenticity. There is an escalation of the true, of the lived experience; a resurrection of the figurative where the object and substance have disappeared. And there is a panic-stricken production of the real and the referential, above and parallel to the panic of material production. This is how simulation appears in the phase that concerns us: a strategy of the real, neo-real and hyperreal, whose universal double is a strategy of deterrence.
Jean Baudrillard Simulacra and Simulation
If there is one thing that I have yet to grasp in this age of bits of 0’s and 1’s is that one does not have to horde things like those of the past. It is not so much that I am pack rat whatever that actually means. See 90% of the stuff that I have laying around our apartment I will use at least once a month. Still between the mementos my mother keeps combine with all the extra stuff I have laying around our apartment can become quite cramp at times. So I have been spending so much time throwing things away at least four boxes a month. In the process I just grab a box and throw it out because if I look in the box it is only give me more excuses on why this or that should not be taking to the trash heap. But to prove my point that most of the stuff that I have in storage I actually I use I stumbled across an old Wired Magazine. It is the 11/12 2003 edition the one with Uma Thurman on the cover see pic below for a better reference or click here.
There is an excellent article on the great PKD Phillip K Dick and how so many of his writings have become motion pictures. Of course of all this PKD mania started with the movie Blade Runner, which is based on his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The rights were sold for only $2500 though that was 1977 so if we take inflation and things into consideration the sting is lessen somewhat. The point basically is this Blade Runner is a cultural icon and if not definitely a Sci-Fi cult classic and all of this was started through independent film. Nowadays PKD works all over the screen Minority Report, Total Recall and Paycheck among others. Movies that are backed by big studios and big bucks, so does a small time director or small movie studio today stand the chance of attaining the rights of any work by PKD lets see.
As for film deals, the estate has become increasingly choosy. "We sort of feel like we have to protect Philip K. Dick's brand image.” So we set very, very high prices, and we'll only do business with people who are established. It's ironic, because the films that created the phenomenon started with options that were granted to struggling filmmakers. Today, we shun people like that."
Russel Galen literary agent who now represents the estate of PKD
Of course I am not suggesting that they have a clearance of PKD material but if a young upstart filmmaker came to the table with a great idea based on the work PKD and could put up some of if not all of the money, why deny him the chance?
Then of course with Hollywood balking about its disappointing box office results maybe the works of PKD and others especially anything from Marvel or DC comics not be adapted into movies. Hollywood needs to get off his high horse and bring in some fresh blood new writers, new directors take some chances so what if the movie flops most of them are flopping nowadays any way.
When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning. There is a proliferation of myths of origin and signs of reality; of second-hand truth, objectivity and authenticity. There is an escalation of the true, of the lived experience; a resurrection of the figurative where the object and substance have disappeared. And there is a panic-stricken production of the real and the referential, above and parallel to the panic of material production. This is how simulation appears in the phase that concerns us: a strategy of the real, neo-real and hyperreal, whose universal double is a strategy of deterrence.
Jean Baudrillard Simulacra and Simulation
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