Theoretical Cases of Simulacra Theory

Based on the understanding and criticism of the hyper-reality created by the media, Baudrillard made an astonishing evaluation of the Gulf War that broke out in 1991. A few months after the outbreak of the Gulf War, Baudrillard published a collection of essays called "The Gulf War Didn't Happen." He regarded the Gulf War as a process of eliminating war and an operation on facts. In the past, war was primarily a symbolic duel. The Gulf War was "realized" by sophisticated technical means, and in the sense of missing events, it did not happen at all. When a reporter from Germany's Der Spiegel asked him if he was willing to go to the battlefield in Iraq, Baudrillard replied: "I live by illusion." Mass media cancels meaning and reality, thus dissolving communication. It is here that In this sense, Baudrillard denies the reality of the Gulf War. Similarly, Baudrillard's analysis of the 9/11 incident can also confirm his views on the media in postmodern society. He believes that terrorism is the opposite side of the coin of hegemony, and the media is a tool for manipulation. "It is this superpower that uses its infinite power to brew violence around the world. It is it that unknowingly ingrains the horror imagination in the hearts of each of us." [7] During the Iraq War, when the public watched the exchange of fire between the US military and the official Iraqi military forces day and night, their viewing of this war was actually no different from the perception of the American Vietnam War blockbusters. Because the TV images they saw were only the result of capture, editing and distortion by photographers with a certain political leaning. What the public saw was far from the real Iraq, but a "virtual one" created by media with real-time broadcast capabilities. "Culturalization" documentary narrative works. In Baudrillard's eyes, there is a moment when hyperreality is recognized as an increasingly dominant ideology. Baudrillard gives codes almost all advantages, including political, economic, cultural and ideological.