하이퍼리얼 ‘저지기계’로서의 스캔들 그리고 아이러니 - 장 보드리야르의 시뮬라시옹 질서를 중심으로

Abstract

This essay will apply Jean Baudrillard`s analytical frame for the 'Scandal' as deterrence machine of the hyperreal to conceal the absurdity of world and the 'Irony' on the whole led to from it. According to Jean Baudrillard, "Irony is the universal and spiritual form about the disillusion of world". Thus, I`m supposed to make an analysis how pornography and sex scandal work as deterrence machine of the hyperreal concealing the distorted sex culture in the real world. What Baudrillard calls deterrence machine or strategy is mechanism that the all world is full of simulacre, and that fake reality affect genuine reality, replacing the real, and that made to deter to become hyperreal. Prison, Disneyland, and scandal are said to be just like that it means prison has particularly been designed in other to hide that the world is so repressive as prison. Though the real has already been riculous and childish enough, having Disneyland distinguished from the real , we can`t find any similarity between both. Immoral and indecent scandal is presented to reveal the world is neither unvirtuous nor obscene. This is why the world itself would be a terrible nightmare indeed provided that it were repressive , ridiculous and childish, or immoral and indecent like prison. Therefore, Baudrillard insists deterrence machine of the hyperreal is the strategy to deter the reality in a conventional meaning, a unprogrammed and accidental situation, not simulacre, from occurring after the reality replaced by simulacre. However, according to Baudrillard who is a huge skeptic to the postmodern, the world we live in is already a prison, simulacre and nightmare itself. So many childish and regressive stories as the instances of Disneyland get around all over the world we live in. Troublous issues such as diploma fabrication and sex scandal of celebrities are not just scandals we can steal a glance, but the reality or existence we face. They are the stories we sometimes hear or witness from our friends and neighbors. In addition, we may even hear much worse scandals than the ones that shake the world from those around usAll of us are accomplices of social contradiction or scandalBut, Baudrillard insists 'anatamo-politics' or 'bio-power' which regulates and controls the body of nation needs scandals as deterrence machine to disclose that our society is not obscene or distorted but moral and sound. Lastly, this essay makes the differentiation from the previous ones in that this did not only study scandal as deterrence machine of the hyperreal, but also analyze how scandal is caused and 'scandal effect' plays a role to increase irony in reality.