The Dreaminess of Virtuality

Abstract

This article deals with Jean Baudrillard's main approaches to the phase of the simulacrum corresponding to hyperreality. The objective is to approach the notion of perception and how this occurs in an environment where the technical object in its tangible character is taken beyond itself through virtuality. We take as a point of reference the existing differences between cyberspace-real time and the intuitions of space and time as a priori forms of sensibility. With this distinction we can state that Baudrillard's critique is not situated on the plane of the theory of knowledge, but on that of the sensible representations of the subject and the object that lead to the object of consumption. For this purpose, we also take into account the ideas of Paul Virilio (concept of acceleration) and Román Gubern (development of the image until it leads to the hyperreal image).