Karlysymon
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I was reminded of this 2002 Al Pacino film a couple weeks ago, while in conversation with someone about Chinese AI news anchors.This is the time of great deception and appearance and reality have become opposed to each other.
Things are not what they appear to be.
A paper about the implications of the film's premise.
The Simone Controversy: The End of Reality? by Thomas Cooper, Ph.D.
The Winter 2002 issue of NMEDIAC:The Journal of New Media & Culture. NMEDIAC has adopted the mission of publishing peer-reviewed papers and audiovisual pieces which contextualize encoding/decoding environments and the discourses, ideologies, and human experiences/uses of New Media...
www.ibiblio.org
Will 2002, the year of Simone, Andrew Niccol's feature film, come to be seen as another pivotal moment - the moment that the power of illusion surpassed that of reality? Will that year of the first "real-or-fake?" feature movie actor be seen as a symbolic bookmark locating the era when we could no longer tell, nor care if we could tell, what is authentic?