...JeanBaudrillard,as a condition of hyperreality where aestheticisation has turned on itself, where even art 'is dead, not only because its critical transcendence...its own structure, has been confused with its own image'.6 More specifically though: how did postmodernism gradually seep out of its earliest containment...

...of Minnesota Press, 1988). 18. "And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the heart of reality. And so art is dead, not only because its critical...itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is unseparable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image" (Jean Baudrillard, "The Orders...

...everything' in a space in which art is said to be 'everywhere' and 'dead'. This is so. Baudrillard had added, not only 'because its critical transcendence is gone',...its own structure, has been confused with its own image'.133 Baudrillard's use of the terms 'hypcrreality' and 'hyperspace' in this essay to characterise...

...everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not only because its ctitical transcendence is gone, but because reality itself,...structure, has been confused with its own image.*' Simulacra escalate amidst critical interventions: in a tumbling together of categories, in an overlapping...

...simulacra.'"5 Baudrillard continues: 'And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not only because its critical transcendence is gone,57 but because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseparable from...

...transcendence' - which he could only mean in this original Kantian sense - has disappeared. 'Art is dead . . . because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an...its own structure, has been confused with its own image.'2 Overing's plea for contextualization would appear to have much the same image in mind. But...

...imaginary are confused in the same operational totality, the aesthetic fascination is everywhere. . . . Reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic...own structure, has been confused with its own image. (Baudrillard 1983: 151) One assumes that it is not necessary to emphasize the obvious. Still, against...

...the machine isonlyasign. (...) And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the heart of reality. And so art is dead, not only because its critical...itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseperable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image." Ook film en televisiebeelden...

...but that -which is always already reproduced ...it is reality itself today that is hyperrealist .... And so art is dead, not only because its critical...own structure, has been confused with its own image. 41 Benjamin does not take his work to the (in my mind) reductionist and ridiculous end reached by Baudrillard....

...desires finally everywhere infuses a reality that is inseparable from its aesthetic representation. "And so art is dead, not only because its critical...transcendence is gone, but because reality itself. . . has been confused with its own image" (Baudrillard 1983b, 151). Mass tourism, films made in spectacular...