{"id":4232,"date":"2020-09-11T12:19:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T16:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2020-09-11T12:19:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T16:19:35","slug":"post-production-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/post-production-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Production week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Near the end of our discussion yesterday, I believe Professor H offered the possibility that reality doesn\u2019t exist because everything is a representation of something else that exists or existed at some point in time.\u00a0 Reality is actually a representation of the parts of the past that have been maintained or improvements of pre-existing entities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If this is the case, could the opposite be true as well? If everything is a representation, are all representations not its own reality?\u00a0 The European exhibitions that were put on display were meant to mimic the \u201creality\u201d outside, but in doing so have created their own world that is unique in itself.\u00a0 For example, Disney World contains representations of the worlds created in their movies, but I would not consider Disney World to be a representation.\u00a0 Disney World is its own entity, and the fictional settings from the movies don\u2019t exist.\u00a0 Therefore, I would categorize Disney World as a reality despite it\u2019s attempts at imitating something else.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although the European exhibitions were meant to be nearly indistinguishable from the world it was attempting to mimic, I don\u2019t believe that it should be categorized as solely a representation of Cairo.\u00a0 As theorized above, perhaps everything is a representation and everything is a reality.\u00a0 Rather than a representation of Cairo, which implies that it\u2019s sole existence is to imitate, I would consider the exhibition a \u201csymbolic tribute.\u201d All things are echoes of other things, but some more intentional than others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near the end of our discussion yesterday, I believe Professor H offered the possibility that reality doesn\u2019t exist because everything is a representation of something else that exists or existed at some point in time.\u00a0 Reality is actually a representation of the parts of the past that have been maintained or improvements of pre-existing entities. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2595,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2595"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4233,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4232\/revisions\/4233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/ant347-f20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}